T for Texas

From Today in Iraq, here's an editorial from The Daily Texan, UT's newspaper:

In a prime-time televised speech Tuesday night, President Bush told Americans that the war in Iraq, the deaths of 1,744 U.S. soldiers, nearly 1,200 Iraqi security forces and countless innocent civilians were "worth it."

In times of war, it is important to see what is really going on. We are a world away from Iraq, and the distance abstracts the war into detachment for most Americans...

"Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed," Bush said. "Every picture is horrifying - and the suffering is real."

We agree, but rather than just listening to Tuesday night's speech, we ask you to see it yourself.

We find these images unbearably graphic, but these are the images that these people are faced with day to day. They don't have the choice to turn the page or change the channel. To them these photos are real.

We ask you to take a minute to look over these images, which are often violent and often distressing. But this is the reality of the war President Bush has told us we will "fight until the fight is won."

Is it worth it?

The photos are at the site.