It looks as though the DoD does not release casualty figures over the weekend, so I can’t do my usual posting of the names of the dead. We are now nearing 3000 US soldiers killed in the war in Iraq, but sometimes numbers don’t do the job of getting across the enormity of what has happened to young American men and women (I don’t expect Americans to care about Iraqi deaths, but bravo to those who do.) Try this: If you have one of those mouses with a scroll wheel in the middle, click on this link and then see how long it takes you to get through all the names. Maybe that will provide more of a sense of what our young people have sacrificed while the rest of America goes about its business. Bring back the draft!

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/BY_DOD.aspx