Yahoo! News - 3 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq Grenade Attack: "A grenade attack killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded four Saturday while they guarded a children's hospital in Baqouba, a town northeast of Baghdad.
The deaths of the soldiers from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division brought to 161 the number of troops killed in action in Iraq (news - web sites) since the start of the war, 14 more than in the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). "

3 a day. That's more than a thousand troops in a year. That is a steep price to pay for -- what?

It's a waste of life. It's an abuse of the troops. It's an abuse of power.

This is a stinking mess, and the people who got us into it aren't going to be able to do anything than get us deeper in the shit. I feel sorry for the troops, the Iraqi people, and I feel the institutions that protect us from abuses of power such as happened in Iraq are being eroded here in the US. I am not sure that our government is not becoming dictatorial. I fear for us.
- posted by geoff @ #