[EKY Sportster]

It's different because it's not like the lives were lost in major, significant battles and killed by many soldiers on a battlefield. A ton of them were killed by just suicide bombers and whatever else.

Not sure I understand the point you are trying to make. But you are correct that it is different. But it still doesn't change anything. When you conquer a country you have to occupy it until it is stable. That is what we have done to ourselves. We have created this vacuum and now we must see it through or Iran will fill it for us. Would have been better for us (in terms of dealing with Iran, our military power and economically) to have left Hussein there. We could then have focused more on Afghanistan and catching Bin Laden and have saved who knows how much money in tax payer dollars, not to mention less dead and wounded soldiers.