Reply #8: Point out we expected heavy losses...

[DarkPhenyx]

...unlike Iraq where we were told it was going to be easy.

You might also want to point out that, if not for the French, it would have been a failure. The French Resistance did a hell of a lot of prep work that saved a great many allied lives that day. He shold make sure to thank every Frenchman he meets.

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You might also point out that even with all the losses it wasn't a bad performance for for waht aws, at the beginning of the war, the 12th most powerful military in the world. The the worlds only superpower as we had in Iraq.