JFern,
Is the casualty rate the only measure of success in a War? I realize that you Democrats would never pass up a chance to score political points at the deaths of US soldiers, but surely there is more than one criteria when you analyze how well, or poorly, a war is progressing.
The measure of success that matters is obviously the amount of graft, corruption, and war profiteering that can be done by the cronies of whoever is in power at the time.
JFern,
So, it is your position that the President of the United States would willingly kill 2,000 American soldiers to gain hold of a good political issue, that is what you're saying, right?
I think this is clearly one purpose, though the aforementioned profiteering and corruption is equally important.