Rico says we might, if we're lucky, get our troops out of Iraq before the casualty count reaches 5,000. While that certainly seems like a
huge number (especially for the dead and their families), you gotta make some comparisons:
US dead on D-Day (6 June 1944) alone: 5,000.
That's out of less than 100,000 total combatants.
In Iraq, only a single month (early on) had a casualty count of almost eight per day; currently it's less than one per day.
That's out of just over 150,000 combatants.
Even as a percentage, lumping years of casualties together, we're still doing better than we did in one day in 1944...
Rico says we might, if we're lucky, get our troops out of Iraq before the casualty count reaches 5,000. While that certainly seems like a huge number (especially for the dead and their families), you gotta make some comparisons:
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