The number of military personnel killed in hostile activities in Iraq has reached 1000. With seven Marines killed earlier today CNN's total reached 1000. Cryptome.org is reporting 1017 deaths (not including the seven today) based on Department of Defense reports. I am not sure where the accounting difference is. I don't think that is important.
The bottom line is 1000 of our best and brightest are gone. Are we any safer as a result of their sacrifice? That is a hard sell. The Iraqi people may be safer, and the Iraqi soccer team won't be tortured for not winning a medal. But it is hard to argue that we are any safer.
It may be harder to hijack a plane, but is it any harder to float a nuclear weapon into the Port of Oakland? I hope so, but I don't see how that is connected to the 1000 men & women who have died in Iraq. It is clear now that Iraq was not the source the weapons of mass destruction that will attack us. I hope that we don't pay for that mistake.
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