death toll

There are finally some sort of numbers as to how many people have died as a result of our little camping trip into the deserts of Arabia: 22,000-55,000. That seems a bit low to me (and a bit too large of a spread) but then, what do I know? The civilian count by IraqiBodyCount (link on the side bar) is in the 8-9000ish range for an average and that's what's been reported in the news. I'm sure there are plenty of people that have just disappeared, not reported dead, no body found...plus the military deaths on top of them.

But anyway, just to put things into perspective here. We have killed between 8 and 18 people in Iraq (not including Afghanistan) for every person killed in the September 11 attacks. We have done so not being able to prove any connection between Iraq and thse attacks, nor any ability in the near future for Iraq to do so. We have built up so much rage that we had to go out and kill ten times as peple people as we lost...and in the process, I fear, created enough rage on "their" side to try and kill tens times more of us. That's the way things usually work at least.

God Bless George W!