The five-year anniversary of the Iraq war was publicized by headlines "4,000 killed in Iraq."

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, there were 4,575 casualties, including 2,403 killed in one day. A few months after war was declared on Japan, we had lost thousands of killed and captured.

On the beaches of Normandy, 2,500 were killed and 8,000 wounded in one day. If the left wing lunatics had been here then, they would have been weeping, wailing, gnashing their teeth, rending their garments, pouring ashes over their heads and crying, "Disaster: Stop this war!"

They don't seem to realize that today we are fighting a war much more insidious, fanatic and deadly than we did in World War II, and in five years, we have lost only 4,000 heroes. We lose 50,000 lives every year on our highways and it gets hardly a glance. The reaction is "Oh well, that's life."

Well, this is war, and the objectivity of the reasoning of those calling for us to quit makes me sick.

Joe Terrell
Gainesville