The Wounded

I'm trying to work on a longish post regarding Iraq, mostly by editing it, so it can be read/digested without taking too much time. In the course of some searching around, I came across this and this. While neither is a particularly short article, they are both worth looking at--and might lend some perspective the next time you read a story that dispassionately includes a line like, "A roadside bomb exploded in the central Iraqi town of Khaldiya Tuesday, killing three American soldiers and at least one Iraqi civilian and injuring several other people."