The One in Which...

And no one does this better than our Commander in Chief.

As gas prices hit $4 per gallon - just in time for summer travel - and airlines start charging passengers $25 for the 1st checked bag in an effort to recoup some of the losses because of rising fuel prices, we still have thousands of troops in Iraq.

The interesting thing about this so-called war in Iraq is that MSN recently reported "that fewer American soldiers died in Iraq in May than during any month since the invasion in 2003". It goes on to say that, "A total of 4,083 American soldiers have died in Iraq and about 29,000 have been wounded." And while I agree that any number is unacceptable, a question begs to be asked: How many Iraqis have died as a result of this war?

Everyone talks about the Allied Forces' losses. What about the Iraqis? What about the people whose homeland is being destroyed? Whose people are being killed?

At last count, the number sat at about over 1 million.

"The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion." according to JustForeignPolicy.org

I don't hear anyone crying for them. No. But I do hear a baffoon rambling and mumbling about how we're winning this ludicrous war.

The mind is usually brilliant. Today it baffles.