Iraq War: 1267 days. U.S. victory over Nazi Germany: 1244 days.

[Human Torch]

Too-long war kills belief in Bush

Monday August 28, 2006
By Rupert Cornwell



LONDON - A miserable milestone has been passed - America's (and Britain's) disastrous war in Iraq has lasted longer than the US involvement in World War II.

Yes, this conflict has outlasted a war that ended with total victory over Nazi Germany. Hitler declared war on the US on December 11, 1941, and 1244 days later, on May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.

The US invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, and by the weekend, 1267 days had passed with no end in sight. Baghdad fell barely three weeks after the invasion. Since then, it's been downhill all the way.

Iraq haunts George W. Bush, and it will probably send his Republican party to defeat in the November mid-term elections.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10398314

[Debau2005]

1. Thank you for posting this.

It will come in handy when my freeper co-workers make the stay the course comment. This should shut them up nicely!

[grytpype]

2. FDR beat Germany AND Japan in the time it's taken W to lose Iraq.

Any doubt as to who's the better president?

[MikeyJones]

3. Well I hate FDR but he was a far more capable leader than Chimp, Jr. nm

[kennetha]

5. Don't forget Papa Stalin

I know American's like to ignore it, but without Papa Stalin slaugthering Hitler's Army in the east, the war in Europe would have been much tougher.

Darned good thing, though, we kicked Japan's butt before Stalin had a chance to join in -- then we would have had to divide up Japan the way we divided up Germany. It would have taken 50 years to get the Soviets out of Japan.

[nealhughes]

6. No joke, if Stalin/Zhukov/Molotov had had no qualms in "fight to the last

bullet, then kill a Nazi with your teeth and use his gun" philosophy, how could we (Canada/UK/US and various freedom fighters) have had a chance for a five year war? Especially had Germany taken the Russian/Ukranian heartland for food and war production?
It wasn't pretty, but Russia saw it for what it was: a life or death struggle and acted accordingly. US and UK offensives, save Dresden were positively Sunday School picnics compared to Zhukov's advance on Berlin...

[Zynx]

8. Yeah. Russia beat Germany with our help.

The main theater in WWII was the eastern front.

[desi]

4. The wackjobs will tell you that ''we are still in Germany today''

Does anybody here have a "body count" of American military personnel killed in Germany lately?

Eight killed in the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfailed Quagmire over the weekend.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A surge in bloodshed Monday left nearly 50 people dead in a suicide car bombing and clashes between Shiite militia and Iraqi security forces Monday, in a brutal contradiction of the prime minister's claim that violence was decreasing.

In one of the deadliest weekends for U.S. forces in recent months, the U.S. military said eight U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday and Sunday in and around Baghdad, seven of them by roadside bombs and one by gunfire.

[KansDem]

7. Saddam has a bigger mustache, therefore, a longer war.

See?

Really! I thought you DUers used logic and reasoning in your posts and threads.

Tsk, tsk...