Four Thousand Gone
The media is reporting tonight that 4,000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq.
4,000
Plus tens of thousands physically maimed and no doubt hundreds of thousands emotionally maimed.
Plus thousands of dead American contractors.
And the Iraqis . . . . how many tens of thousands of them are dead?
4,000 plus so much more.
So much went so wrong in this effort to "liberate a people." So much.
Four thousand gone, and so much more.