Jeff emailed this to me:

I ran the numbers on Iraq. I just wanted to see how we are doing compared to other wars.

At the current rate of loss in Iraq it will take us* 84* years *72* days
to match the number of deaths in Vietnam.

See the rest here

So I checked it out. The post is a keeper, it begins

I've had it! I am so sick of hearing about how Iraq is such a terrible quagmire that is just as bad, if not worse than Vietnam. It's like opening up the help wanted ads in your newspaper and seeing the plethora of jobs while John Kerry talks about us teetering on the Great Depression. We are no where near Herbert Hoover days.

Heh... Right on Jeff! Check out the whole post