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A little perspective about the deaths in Iraq.....
I notice this today when reading the newspaper:
Red-light running has long vexed traffic officials. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, more than 900 people were killed and 176,000 injured in the United States because of red-light runners in 2003.
I also noticed that 16,000 people were murdered last year. The lowest amount since 1965.
Yet the entire country is focused on the deaths in Iraq. Considering we live in a country of almost thirty million people, the amount of deaths in Iraq are really minimal.
Of course every death is a tragedy, but political policy has to deal with numbers.
The fact that we conqured Iraq and have occupied it for so long with an insurgency, two thousand deaths is so low it is almost a miracle.
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