memorial day 2007...

Year 4 of the Occupation:

Casualty figures thru 5/26/07:
American Deaths: 3,455
American Wounded (Official): 25,549
American Wounded (Estimated): 23,000 - 100,000

Iraqi Civilian Deaths (Reported):
Min - 64,405
Max - 70,552

Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths

Paul Krugman in the Times via Pottersville:

“In this place where valor sleeps, we are reminded why America has always gone to war reluctantly, because we know the costs of war.” That’s what President Bush said last year, in a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

Those were fine words, spoken by a man with less right to say them than any president in our nation’s history. For Mr. Bush took us to war not with reluctance, but with unseemly eagerness.