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Casting an eye up and down this thread, I begin to wonder why people get so defensive when it's pointed out that they value white lives more than brown lives? Hmmm. A little close to home, maybe?
The civilian death toll is, in my humble view, the single most reprehensible part of this thing. And there are lots of reprehensible parts of it. The causalness with which it's treated in the press is nothing short of disturbing.
Obviously not every one of those was killed by Coalition forces. Many of them were certainly victims of civil warfare that became possible then the Coalition knocked out the only thing stabilizing Iraq, the heavy hand of Saddam Hussein. He was a bad dude, to be sure, and it's also bad without him around.
This is the lesson we really should have learned a LONG LONG time ago about armed conflict in the Middle East: even when you win, you lose.
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