Two days, Seven years

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7534949.stm

'The remains of British and Australian troops killed in WWI are to be taken from a French mass grave and reburied in individual plots at a new cemetery.

The bodies of up to 400 soldiers found at the grave in north-east France in May will be reburied as close as possible to where they were found.

The men will be given full military honours to commemorate their bravery.

They died in the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916, thought to be one of the bloodiest for Australian troops in WWI.

It took place over 19 and 20 July 1916 - 5,533 Australian soldiers and 1,547 British soldiers were killed.'

Or, to put it into context, more casualties than MNF-Iraq and NATO have suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan COMBINED in seven YEARS of fighting. Two days, seven years. I don't like making these kind of arguments- I think they coarsen the debate. But the left have a continuous drumbeat of stories about the 'heavy' casualties that we are suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, hoping that the historically-challenged listening and watching audience will accept their propaganda that we can't afford such 'terrible' losses in these 'unwinnable' wars. Sadly, many millions of people have bought the argument- threadbare and paper-thin though it is.

And it may well be that the millions they have suckered will vote against McCain and for Obama in the election, and for the left propaganda merchants, it will all have been worthwhile.