Wayne State Political Science Prof. Mel Small was quoted in this article on the fact more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers that have been killed in the war in Iraq. The article looked in comparison to the Vietnam War and the reaction of the American public to that fact 1,000 U.S. troops had been killed in that war by 1965. ... One lesson neither side could have gleaned from Vietnam was the impact of 24-hour cable television and the Internet, \"People talked about Vietnam as the television war,\" Professor Small said. \"But it took 24 hours to get film on TV. The Pentagon released body counts on Fridays. Everything today is more immediate. So even though we\'ve only passed the 1,000 mark, that mark is, to me, equivalent to 15,000 dead in Vietnam.\"