Lamentably, I have stopped reading stories of soldiers killed in Iraq.

[ozymandius]

There has been a cascade of stories about the absence of WMD in Iraq: something most at DU have known to be the case since the get-go. I read the news of events as they unfold anymore burdened with a load of absolute facts.

The cause for war was a deliberate mistake(?) with a hidden agenda. UN Resolution 1441 granted no automacity for an invasion. The soldiers have been thrown into a hornet's nest as part of a political agenda, not for the sake of peace. Thousands of innocents have died for the sake of a lie and a hidden agenda. Thousands have been forever maimed with limbs lost, psyches shattered, families torn apart.

The corpses keep piling up on both sides. I know that this is a reality of war: young people die. I am sure that more die than are reported. We know as many as 20 attacks occur every day. Meanwhile, tiny numbers of American dead trickle into news reports and those injured are overlooked by government and most media as non-issues.

Every headline of war dead resonates in my ears like the clicks from a revolver's cocked hammer. Waiting for the report as another Tet deepens the horror.