The price of freedom...

I realized today after reading and watching more news on the Iraq war and the rumblings on Capitol Hill for the president to provide quarterly reports on the progress in Iraq. Critics have argued that this is late in coming (agreed) and still lacking at best (agreed). I’m always torn about the war. I wasn’t for it, but I know we can’t just leave. You can’t solve one problem and cause incidental problems and just forget about those. But the thing that struck me is the emphasis on body counts of American soldiers. I think the count surpassed 2,000 a couple days ago, but as angry as people get about the American soldier body count, I feel like the civilian body count doe not get as much attention. These are the true innocents; you can argue back on forth on whether death in the line of duty is a known and accepted risk when you enter any type of service (military, police, etc.), but you cannot argue about civilian deaths. They are never justified and yet do not seem to incite the same outrage in people. I did a quick Google search and came up with a website that lists the minimum Iraqi civilian casualty count at 26,982 and the max around 30,000. That’s MORE THAN TEN TIMES the number of American soldier casualties. Ughhh…I don’t know what else to say. I feel sick…