What happened ? please answer the following q's\n\n1. What caused it and what was it about\n2. # U.S. deaths\n3. # of Enemy deaths\n4. Who won or was there not a very clear victory?\n5. any intresting fatcs
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The root of the problem goes way, way back in time. For a thorough analysis, including the Bosnia Conflict, check out this link to wikipedia...
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How could it affect Oppenheim, New York Their was never a battle there.  The only people it could effect were the men going off to war.  He is a web site about the men that went to war.  You will not find anything else, Sorry about that.\n http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/infantry/153rdInf/153rdInfMain.htm
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This is a link to a nice summary at LSU:\nhttp://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm\n\nOf course our population was smaller then, but the Revolution and War of 1812 had comparatively minor losses in actual numbers.  Despite the TV and movie drama, an estimated 2.2% were killed in action (KIA).\n\nThe Civil War had an atrocious 184 thousand dead, with just shy of 5% KIA on both sides.  The South's population was smaller, and their losses were greater.\n\nWWI had 53 thousand Americans KIA at a rate of just over 1%, more died from influenza and other diseases than from bullets and bombs.\n\nWWII had over 292 thousand Americans dead, just under 2% of troops KIA.  So while it was indeed devastating and horrible, the proportional body count was not always the way TV and movies depict, although there were indeed places where units were more than decimated.\n\nKorean war dead was at 33 thousand and Vietnam with some 47 thousand combat deaths, though the total body bag count was above 50 thousand.  For all the bad press, only about one-half of one percent of our troops died in Vietnam and the KIA percentage was only one-tenth a percent higher in Korea.\n\nAs for our Iraq War experience, remember in the current fight, by far the most of our troops were killed trying to keep the peace after the Iraqi army had surrendered or disbanded.  (After our Civil War, some of the Southerners did the same, it was not safe for a Union soldier to be alone in the south for several years)\n\nIn the Gulf War, however, the American deaths were only about 148, the KIA figure is essentially zero, the share was so small.  Meanwhile, Iraq suffer almost a quarter-million losses in their military.
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A good number of British and American soldiers were killed by friendly fire in Iraq at the beginning.  Tragic blunders, some of them avoidable, I think.  I only know of 4 Canadian soldiers killed by friendly fire.  Maybe there are more?  That's 4 too many anyway.  But certainly not more than other countries.
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The country was together at that time.Vast ammounts of people were willing to sacrafice  for the war effort. That was a real war that brought every one to a common goal-Victory. Unlike todays war of choice which has devided our country,we joined together and did the job that saved civilization as we know it.
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Since independence, the US has lost ALL long wars (1+ years) it started:  \n\na) 1812\nb) Vietnam\nc) Beirut\nd) Iraq\ne) Afghanistan\n\n(Civil wars don't count.  How exactly do you lose a civil war?)  \n\nIf it's not a quick and easy win by overpowering force, the US does not and has never had the stomach to "stay the course".  The US only attacks "easy targets" (eg. Philippines, Mexico, Grenada), and in all five cases, the US assumed they were easy targets and learned the hard way.  (The US even managed to lose a short war against an "easy" target: Cuba.)\n\nThe US has never "won" long wars either.  In both World War I and World War II, the US ran and hid until they were forced to get involved (i.e. the US didn't start the wars), and in both World Wars, it was the British and Russians together who won them, and NOT the US.\n\nThe US may have technology, numbers and dollars to win, but it has always lacked - and still lacks - the three most important things it takes to win a long war: heart, spine, and stomach.  The US doesn't have those, while the Europeans, Africans, Asians and the muslims do.\n\n\nAdditional:\n\nThe US hasn't won any wars in 30 years.  As I said above, if it's not a quick and easy invasion, they won't do it.\n\nI also notice a lot of negative ratings for my answer.  That's the yanks for you, they never could deal with the truth.  (They still can't admit their own country's behaviour caused 9/11.)\n\n\n.
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More Americans died at Gettysburg than at Fort Sumter.\n\nMore Americans died in the Argonne than on the Lusitania\n\nMore Americans died at Normandy than at Pearl Harbor.\n\nWhat's you point?  We should quit while we are behind?
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Thinking like that is the reason we are losing, you have to understand your enemy.  It is also the reason why we could never win the war.  They think their death gets them into Heaven so they are glad to die, we would have to kill EVERY Muslin in the world for us to win.  Their actions you claim are crazy are going to be what wins them the war.  Their children and grand children can quote what happened during each Crusade can you name us anything about the Civil War? As to your questions as for what do you remember 9/11??  Because there is a war going on and they know that through sacrifice they will win and again our youth are too busy on MTV exactly why they do not want Western influences.  Too bad!   God Bless The Southern People.
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Tempting to say which one?... there were SEVEN... but in the end they kinda fizzled out with a whimper not a bang...\nbasically folks got fed up and slowly support died out.\n\nThere are loads of good sites with further info... below is just one.
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Shoulda fought harder. \n\nYou're just mad we won. HaHa.
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using you self centered logic, WW2 would have been over the day after it started. Yes any dead soldier is too many.using logic, we lost more than that in the first week of WW1, WW2,or Korean War, or Vietnam. I didn't know that winning a war meant nobody died ? Do you know how many dies on 9-11 ?\nIt still does not equal that number in one day on the number of Americans dead. How about how many died on the USS Cole ? Was that too many ? Its War !!!!!!!!!! it is all about killing! To act like these people that just want to kill us don't exist would be worst than war. Ask the Palestinians how the like their country ran by a terrorist group. This is a long war that we will be in. If we have the guts to finish it. if we don't then there will be another war and that would be worse. That will give the terrorist more time to get weapons into our country that will kill thousands more than what have died so far. \nAs far as millions of civilian dead, who's numbers are you using and who killed them. The terrorist , I know , blow up innocent civilians every day.\nHow many terrorists captured ? obviously not enough.But, any that we have captured, the world does not support us on it anyhow. \nHow many terrorist died ? Simple answer, not all of them yet !
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Great post!!  Your facts do not lie.  I really don't understand why people are so worked up over this Iraq situation.  As you stated, these are not alarming death tolls.  Our country has chosen to defend ourselves through a terrorist hosting country.  I give great credit to those who put their life down for our country, the 2,839 that were killed could be a very small number compared to the next terroirst attack on the US. THANKS FOR THE STATS!!! Happy Veterans day to all of my co-servers. =)
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Oh yeah, Bush was humiliated. Him and his Republican buddies were defeated bigtime when the Democrats won most of the elections. The issue that really affected this race was the War In Iraq. If Bush hadn't entered that war, then the race would have had a differen t outcome. There are no other issues that come to my mind that affected the race besides the war.
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"Godoompah" & "Starry Eyes" are correct.  The Civil War was an unmitigated disaster for both sides.  If that doesn't make sense to you; if you really can't understand how both sides could lose, then just try this simple three-step process....\n\n1) Open your eyes and read the deathtoll:\n    \n    120,000 killed in action \n    240,000 died of other causes \n  ~360,000 TOTAL Union dead and/or missing \n\n     95,000 killed in action \n   165,000 died of other causes \n ~260,000 TOTAL Confederate dead and/or missing \n\n  ~620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers \n   UNKNOWN total Northern and Southern civilian\n   casualties \n  \n2) Open your mind and think about it....\n\n3) Open your heart and feel about it....\n\nIf you really do this, neither the Civil War nor any of the other Overklass-generated orgies of mass murder will ever look the same again.....\n\nBefore some damn fool says so, I'm not a pacifist, a communist, or even a liberal ; I'm just a middle-aged guy who lived long enough to see through some of the crap our Beloved Leaders keep throwing at us to keep us all permanently mind-f***ed....\n\nNimadan
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Certainly no better than it did.  The will to win must be resolute and all measures to do so must be taken.  Limited wars fought with too many conditions are a recipe for certain failure.
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Any other answer would be idiotic speculation.The only result for sure will be more dead americans and Iraqis!Get real .This is the middle east.these countries have been fighting for hundreds of years!
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The actual numbers were 34 dead and 173 wounded, or a total of 70% of the crew.  The Liberty was our newest "Intelligence" ship.  (clue)  This investigation was squashed and deemed classified by the Johnson Administration 39 years ago.  There are veteran groups out there today still trying to get  satisfaction on this issue. So in answer to your question,  essentially nothing was done except a whole lot of sweeping under the rug.