I Don't Care What You Say At this Point

Too many people have died.

On the third anniversary (sounds almost marital rather than martial) of the unjustified invasion of Iraq, people are still dying in droves. From Kos to Lambert to Krane the numbers range. Here is a hard statistic from Krane though, as Lambert points out, he ignores it:

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Three years into the war, one grim measure of its impact on Iraqis can be seen at Baghdad's morgue: There, the staff has photographed and catalogued more than 24,000 bodies from the Baghdad area alone since 2003, almost all killed in violence.

Baghdad may have 1/4 of the population of Iraq. You do the numbers. And fat pundits, please don't continue to laugh at the well known study by the Lancet (Britain's premier medical journal) that predicted 100,000 excess deaths to the invasion, and that was 18 months ago.

It does not say how many were children. The Lancet article just referenced asserts:

Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1-419) than in the period before the war. (emphasis added)

Over half of Iraq's population is children so you might expect that there have been substantial numbers.

We go to great lengths to preserve the life of children in the United States. The first thing we should do when we invade a country is provide the children there with the same level of care. We have failed miserably.

We have failed