way of comparison, the Allies lost more than 1,500 servicemen in the three-day battle of Leyte Gulf in late October 1944. In THREE DAYS, we lost nearly half of the entire KIA of the modern continuation of Operation Desert Storm... yes, kids, it WAS the continuation of Desert Storm since Hussein violated the UN resolutions that halted the Desert Storm bombing in 1991.

August 31, 2010 04:00 pm at 4:00 pm |

Willy Brown

Gates is a SOS.

August 31, 2010 04:07 pm at 4:07 pm |

sonny chapman

How long before the next batch of Neo-Cons forget the "lessons of Iraq"? It took them only 28 years to un-learn the "lessons of Vietnam". None of the new Neo-Cons, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, fought in'Nam. Connection ?

August 31, 2010 04:07 pm at 4:07 pmsince Mr. Tan man is prepared to declare victory when there is no victory for a war that is shameless and has cost Americans so many lives and money!

August 31, 2010 04:25 pm at 4:25 pm |

Claudia, Houston, Tx

Boehner is ready to hang out a "mission accomplish banner" for the Bush administration for political reasons which tells me he cares more about a vote than the cost of American blood and treasure. He is a total disgrace.

August 31, 2010 04:25 pm at 4:25 pm |

Sniffit

"Russia couldn't win in Afghanistan and we won't either."

To be fair, Reagan and company supplied the Taliban with all kinds of weapons and assistance in order to oust the Soviet Union from Afghanistan as part of our Cold War strategies. Wanna take a guess