at first glance, his hubris is stunning. on the other, soldiers know (?) that loss of a life is a possibility. the problem in this case is sending them to war without any semblance of strategy. and maintaining a failed strategy.

Donnie Darko!

My loved one is one of the hundreds of thousands sent there. Thankfully, he's not there at the moment but it's heart wrenching to be the family of one of the people sent over there let alone one of the 4,000+ who've died. I seldom get teary eyed, but every time I see the pictures (like a few hours ago with #3,000 to $4,0002 in the NYT) of a dead soldier, their family or someone getting deployed, it breaks my heart. Bush's attitude towards the war, especially the jokes he's made recently about that quagmire, is basically spitting on the graves of those whose life he sacrificed. All of these sacrifices + the injured + the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians who've died as a result, and he's making jokes.

well, there's "soldiers know the risk," and then there's the soldiers who joined thinking we'd never go to war again, the soldiers who did their tour of duty and were sent right back out, the national guard members who should never have left the country in the first place, much less on back-to-back tours….