War on IRAQ a waste of money and people?

After doing some reserch, I found out that it costs around $200,000.00 in order to maintain a batalion in IRAQ for about a day. and the number of solders that died in the IRAQ "War" is about equal to the number that died on Sept.11. Is it really worth it to "liberate" the people in IRAQ? Since after a country's government collapses there tends to be a lot of problems >COUGH-Russia-COUGH<

>>18 : "The problem is that the US military is fighting with its hands behind its back."

Technically, you're right, but there's absolutely no other way to fight the war at this point.  So >>17 is right when he says its a lost cause.  I'm not sure just what you were going for in your comment, but if you meant that our rules of engagement are too light-handed, we have no choice: the more heavy-handed we are, the more the Iraqis and the Arab world will resist.  It's lose-lose for us.  Not enough pressure, and we don't get what we want.  Too much pressure, and the situation becomes that much more uncontrollable; violence would be WORSE, not better, and our Arab allies could and would put a stop to the war by forcing us out.