Cut and Run?

So.. did the United States "cut and run" from Vietnam, or did we merely lose that war?

Of the U.S. military, 58,226 were killed in action or classified as missing in action. A further 153,303 US military personnel were wounded to give total casualties of 211,529. The United States Army took the majority of the casualties with 38,179 killed and 96,802 wounded; the Marine Corps lost 14,836 killed and 51,392 wounded; the Navy 2,556 and 4,178; the Air Force lost 2,580 and 931; with the lowest deaths in terms of numbers and percentages among the branches being the Coast Guard, with seven dead and 60 wounded.

The lowest casualty estimates, based on North Vietnamese statements which are now discounted by Vietnam, are around 1.5 million Vietnamese killed. Vietnam's Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs released figures on April 3, 1995, reporting that 1.1 million fighters—Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers—and nearly 2 million civilians in the north and 2 million in the south were killed between 1954 and 1975. Robert McNamara, in his regretful memoir of the war, references a figure of 3.2 million. The number of wounded fighters was put at 600,000. It remains even more unclear how many Vietnamese civilians were wounded.

None of the current Republican leadership signed up for that. The Democrats that did, Kerry, Murtha, Cleland, etc. are treated like anti-Americans by the right wing cowards.

So.. today we see that the 2 missing American soldiers in Iraq turned up dead. The total number is just over 2500 now. I also wonder how many Iraqis were killed today.

McNamara eventually said 'whoops, sorry everyone'. I doubt the current crop of war mongers will ever do the same.