quit trying to compare this war to WWII, the Civil War or the Korean war, answers might come a little clearer to you.
Eric and why not. We have a press that is ever so eager to report all bad about deaths and this and that checklist that has not been met.  Since they are not willing to face the true problem and god forbid we call a radical islamist a spade. And yes this was prevalent during WWII even David admitted as much.

This war was fucked up the moment it was a gleam in GWB and Dick Cheney's eyes.
Do you possibly think they went in thinking this would be the result? My eyes were opened with the Dick Cheney video posted up here but hey we are in it now. Why stop when the job aint finished. I think we did that in Vietnam and looked what happened

But what is most disgusting of all, is that all the lessons learned from Vietnam have been completely ignored by these two people and the architects of this war. But really, that shouldn't be a surprise because these two fools and most of the Iraq War crowd did all they could to avoid that experience - first hand.  
The thing that dissapoints me most about this administration is not the Iraq war but absolutely ignoring the Border Issue.