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I don't know what the point of the first link is. I know a lot of people have died in Iraq and that's a tradgedy but it's also inevitable. It's a war, do you know how many troops died on D day?

As for the second link it's an interesting article but I disagree with it's conclusions I found one line at the beggining really interesting. "As calls to set a timetable for withdrawing American troops from Iraq grow with each new casualty" Is that the reason we should withdraw, because it's not as easy as we'd hoped. The article goes on to say that the UN could take over security in Iraq I doubt very much that they would and I'm not totally convinced that they could. It does seem to me that some people want to leave just because of mountibg casualties, what kind of precedent is that to set we made that mistake in Mogadishu. Do we really want to send the message to people that already think we're week that they can win if they simply commit enough attrocities?