I happened to catch the end of the CSPAN broadcast of President Bush addressing the World Affairs Council on Monday. The President took a few questions from the audience. A woman asked for the number of Iraqi war-related deaths since the U.S. invaded Iraq. About 30,000 was the President’s response. That’s a lot of people, but it made me wonder what others are saying. It seems to be hard to know, but an independent study reported more than a year ago that their findings indicate at least 100,000 have been killed.

I figure death, destruction, and humiliation would have struck close enough to affect me in a major way if I lived in a country that is just a little bigger than twice the size of Idaho.