One Hundred Names You Won't Hear This Memorial Day

From the Daily Kos courtesy of Eschaton:

It is precisely because Memorial Day brings home to us the uniqueness and value of every life that one group of war dead will be conspicuous by their absence from all our commemorations: and that is the many thousands of Iraqis we have killed since March 2003. Because who really wants to be reminded that at least 20,000 and perhaps as many as 100,000 Iraqis - people just like us - are dead today because of a war we should never have started?

Their names will never be engraved on the Mall, and their faces will never warrant a spread in the Washington Post, but I will commemorate here 100 or so of those Iraqis who, thanks to us, made the "ultimate sacrifice" whether they wished it or not.

Click here for the rest (warning: graphic images).

It's very important to point out that many, if not most, of that 20,000-100,000 were civilians. Civilians for god's sake! It is an understatement to say that these Iraqis are most decidedly not better off without Saddam Hussein. Remember also that each and every one of these dead Iraqis had families and friends who have to go on without them. How can they not hate the United States? How can they not be tempted to become terrorists and bring the fight here to us? This damned war is the worst thing that's happened in my lifetime.

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