You don't listen to the radio like I do, but almost every hourly news broadcast for the past week has been an item about some funeral or other for someone lost in Iraq. Particularly Michelle Witmer, the woman with two sisters still in the military. On Yahoo News, a search on "funeral" and "Iraq" gives over 2,000 hits. The first thousand of these hits are for stories just in April. The vast majority are stories related to funerals of military personnel in the U.S.

If CNN could, it would have a 24/7 inset of flag-draped coffins on its news coverage.

Not only is this issue not being ignored, it is being played as a political issue for all it's worth.