While parents, wives, children, siblings, and loved ones of those killed mourn, others have to deal with Soldiers and Marines who have returned with a lost limb or limbs, their vision gone, others their hearing, still others their brain function.

Multiply the losses we feel for our loved ones by a factor of ten or maybe a hundred, and you have some idea of the grief and suffering that the Iraqi people are feeling. Our losses are in the thousands, theirs are in the hundreds of thousands.

All this grief and sorrow for a war that didn't need to happen. George Bush's war in Iraq is a war of choice. Our troops are neither defending America nor are they attacking an enemy who attacked us. That makes the sorrow and grief all the more poignant.

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