Body count (update)

Earlier today, I suggested that we might reach 1,000 U.S. casualties today. Indeed, we did pass that unfortunate mark at roughly noon today Iraq time.

Of course, as some have been pointing out, today's shameful news doesn't mark the 1,000th American to die in Iraq. There have been about 46 contractors killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war. There have also been a few deaths amongst the press.

However, let us not forget who started this unnecessary, pre-emptive war, and let us not forget that the supposed rationale for war was an ever morphing set of lies based on cooked and cherry-picked intellegence.

Finally, let's not forget that the Iraqi people have suffered an order of magnitude worse than have we.

We deserve better, so do they.