Hey! There's A Nit! Let's Pick It!

Ok, let's review:

• We're in a war for no other reason than the president of half a country wanted us there.
• That president and his cronies at best manipulated the facts, at worst outright lied to get us there.
• That president's advisors bulldozed any possible dissent, showing no reticence whatsoever in punishing severly anyone who dared stand up and disagree.
  
• That president and his advisors had no real plan on what they would do once they took over that country, and showed no real desire to figure it out. They just wanted to see the American flag fly in Baghdad.
• Now that we're there, there's no real idea of what we're to do next. There's no real timetable for withdrawal.
• The minimum actual monthly cost of the war is $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) higher than the maximum estimated monthly cost of the war given before the invasion.
• The minimum actual monthly cost of the war is $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars) higher than the maximum estimated monthly cost of the war given before the invasion. (I know I put that in twice. I wanted it emphasized)
• The troops and security forces we're training aren't nearly ready to do the job.
• The Iraqis who want to do that job are getting blown up.
• Baghdad has become a training ground for the very terrorists we said we were trying to defeat.
  
• Because of the above uncountable hundreds, maybe thousands, of civilians are dying.

Well hooooooooold on thar, Baba-Louie!

Here's a report that sez thatmany of those civilians being killed aren't being killed by Americans! For three internet pages, Rod Nordland goes on about how people who are trying to tally the cost in human life--human Iraqi life--are using poor statistics, worst-case (or best-case, depending on your point of view) scenarios, and guesstimates to come up with the numbers.

Well, personally, I don't give a flying fig if those people are dying because we're shooting them or someone else is killing them. The point is, they're dying because we're there. They're dying because Preznit Bush sent the cavalry charging in there, and left them hanging, without a real plan as to what to do next.

There's an old saying: "Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it." Well, Bush got his wish. Saddam's out of power. And, just like he said, Iraq is a training ground for terrorists. Only it happened the other way 'round.

So take us to task, Mr. Nordland, because some Americans are using inaccurate statistics to point out the number of Iraqis killed by Coalition Forces. I personally don't know of, or read, or use as a reason to decry this godawful war, any of the statistics that you've gone to great pains to dismiss.

Because in the end, it just doesn't matter.

My son, the Soldier/Cop, could tell you the exact name of the law that says if you're involved in a crime where a murder is committed, you are guilty of that murder, even if you didn't actually kill the person.

Those civilians are dying because we're there.

Yeharr

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