The Price of Arrogance

The following figures are from icasualties.org on September 8, 2006:

Total U.S. military casualties (death) in Iraq: 2,666
Total U.S. military casualties (wounded) in Iraq 19,688
Additional Coalition (non-U.S.) military casualties (death) in Iraq: 233

Contractor deaths in Iraq (minimum--list is incomplete): 349
Journalist deaths in Iraq (minimum--list is incomplete): 100
Iraqi Police deaths (minimum--list is incomplete): 5,351

Iraqi Civilian deaths, from Iraq Body Count (min. - max.): 41,639 - 46,307

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward forty-eight hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at Chautauqua, 14 August 1936

Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out.
-George W. Bush, to Condoleeza Rice and 3 Senators, as quoted by Time magazine and CNN, March 2002