U.S. price tag of $320 billion of our money and "at least 2,542 " members of the U.S. military have died, not counting (1)"contractors" (2) Iraqi civilian women and children (3) the tens of thousands that have been wounded, and (4) the one in five surviving soldiers that have lingering mental problems.
See " War Casualties" link below for realistic estimates of civilian deaths.
Evidently the President, who did not serve in Vietnam, never learned the custom of paying respect to all the dead from a war. He is happier honoring nobody, and seems to think everybody else is as well. Neither has George Bush ever figured out the significance of mass casualties. Something of their significance (however little) might have impressed itself on his conscience, if he had tried to fit even a few of the more than 2500 funerals into his busy vacation schedule.
Hint to the President: When casualties are so frequent that you can’t find the time to attend the funerals of soldiers killed in a war you started, it’s a clue that the war is not going well.
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