Yes! In your face previous record holder!!

USA! USA!

Well, it is a war and during a war people usually get killed, right?

It's a war that was declared over by the Bush administration 18 months ago.

Well, it is a war and during a war people usually get killed, right?

It's a war that was declared over by the Bush administration 18 months ago.

True, but I think thats a little harsh. If your house and family were to be blown up and killed in a "war," and I said "Sorry buddy, but thats what happens in war" I would assume you would be a little offended

The lack of sympathy would be offending, yeah. But I am talking about the general situation and that is that people there are in war and during a war people die, therefore I don't see anything surprising here. Actually Americans should be happy we are not living many decades ago when the wars weren't all technical with the most modern techniques and missiles etc., when the wars were actually men vs. men. The losses would have been much higher.

I see what your saying. Are you in support of the war? What about others in Germany?

I am in a definite minority over here. The rest, you can guess

Im guessing you are FOR the war?

Keep in mind, Bush keeps Germany's economy alive with the war.

He wastes so much money on it, that the Euro exchange rate just keeps rising in comparison to the US-$.

Thats why you are for this war? So you could think its unjustified but still support it because it keeps your economy "alive"?

A lot of people don't understand the nature of the losses and make comparisons to old days of higher body counts. What they are either forgetting or leaving out is that family sizes used to be much larger.

Benjamin Franklin as one example had something like 15+ siblings. Over time the family size got less extreme with the amount of kids but still even 50 or 80 years ago families were larger. When a family of 6 kids loses one, it is a tragedy to them but they are much more capable of healing over it than a family of one or two kids who loses one, which is the situation we face today. War in the era of low birthrates is a different thing from old fashioned wars.

As to miilitary quotes, here's a good one that is appropriate to Iraq and the problems of this never ending war:

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep in mind, Bush keeps Germany's economy alive with the war.

He wastes so much money on it, that the Euro exchange rate just keeps rising in comparison to the US-$.

Excuse me, but that's bullshit. You could make a valid case that the U.S. casualties number is high, but this is most definitely not it.

We have 1200 people dead In Iraq.

In WW2 50 million people died, half a million of whom were American.

In WW1 millions of people died, over 100,000 of whom were American.

In Civil War the casualties eclipsed 600,000.

In the more recent Vietnam War 60,000 Americans died.

The higher birth rates will not make up for these numbers.

The modern warfare IS focused with minimizing the death toll, both from the military and the civilian perspective, and as unfortunate as war is, we should be grateful for that.