Iraq pays a bloody price as US fails to learn lesson of Vietnam

THE Iraq war has been raging for over four years now.

By the end of last month, US troop fatalities had reached 3,474 and the estimates of Iraqi security force and civilian fatalities ranged from 30,000 up to as high as 650,000.

As we continue to become desensitised to hearing about deaths in Iraq every day, the body count continues to rise and every individual killed leaves a huge gap in the lives of his or her family.