Sunday, February 19, 2006

IRAQ WAR DEAD & MY BLOG

It should be noted that as we approach the beginning of the 4th year of Bush's little diversion of not catching bin Laden, and nearing the beginning of the 4th year of my blog, that the hits on my blog in the next day or so will reach the U.S. casualties in IraqU.S..

Though that is clearly a coincidence (and a matter of timing - depending on when you read this) it is not insignificant. While I love the inquiries/visits and the validation that someone/anyone read this, the thought that an equal number of lives have been lost on this little extracurricular of Shurb's sickens me. (You could scroll down to see the number of wounded in action - but it's expoentially worse!)

Lately I've coming back to Colin Powell's little Pottery Barn comment - and though more reasonable people knew it to be true, those frickin' people who 'bleed red white and blue' never gave it consideration. I still think they don't. The irony is that it is their children/family who are the ones taking up arms and being killed. ....and we do own it and are there for years to come.

You almost cannot blame them for continuing to stand behind the president. If they opted not to, mentally they have to reconcile that their loved ones may have died in vain - and that has to be very tough to justify.

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