David,

You asserted that I post these messages with "glee." I find that offensive and disgusting. Apparently you don't think its right to report on the most important effect of warfare - the fact that people die. You don't want to be exposed to this ugly fact of life.

As for Saddam Hussein's death squads...good riddance. I am glad they are gone. But that still doesn't justify the fact that tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians died from our guns and bombs. It doesn't justify a pre-emptive war based upon completely false claims about WMDs and Al Qaeda. Morality isn't a scorecard. Every life is precious. When we choose to engage in war, we are making serious choices about human beings. Its not a video game. At the very least we should have first corroborated our claims about Iraqi WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda before engaging in an enterprise that leaves so many innocent dead. That's the least we could have done before engaging in this awful enterprise.

Donald