...But we have hundreds more people dying in America every day in our innercities.  Real victims who do not have the money to shovel themselves out of the poorest neighborhoods.  Crack houses.  Hookers.  Driveby shootings.  School violence.  Moms who had dreams and ambitions, who feel in love at the age of 17 to a man they would die for, only to find him being replaced by an empty spot on the bed.  Only to find their high school friends wandering the streets at 3 in the morning with a tech-9.

Does the idea of an absolutely horrific civil war breaking out in the middle east make contact with your animosity?  If we leave, hundreds of thousands of people will probably die.  More than those in that wave incident.  Starvation.  Famine.  It's a damn delicate thread over there.   People spend 90% of their time on this issue examining the words and actions of our administration, trying to find flaws, lies, budget miscalcuations.  All giddy.  Laughing.

What enjoyment some people get out of this.  What an absolultely ironic comedy this is, eh?  Posting the findings of 9 dead people to illustrate a constipated, political embitterment.  I have never understood the concept of posting death tolls as though they were evidence in themselves of a corrupt system.  Some people hate when other people mention Sept. 11th.  Has it gotten so cliché by now that it can be socially tailored into one of the most abrasive and mocking punchlines of  our contemporary message-board politicians?  When will some people realize that raw numbers are irrelevant?  5,000 people killed in New York?  Who cares.  The spirit of the attacks might have well tried to murder the 260,000,000 people who call  this country home.  There is a disease in this world and we have found ourselves host to it.  Even though that may seem like an overused argument, the potency deserves to remain as fresh as the day it was first stated.

Nine people died and they all new the costs of their decision to enlist.  This may seem heartless, but soldiers are warriors and warriors fight wars.  They armed to kill people and they accept the idea that people want to kill them.  There is no such thing as a humane war.  The presence of death makes everyone who carries a weapon, killers.  They would fight in Iraq or they would fight against Hitler.  It is a damn tragedy, but the real tragedy of their deaths, as you would have been completely ignorant of their very existence had it not been for their deaths, is that you do not realize why they died, nor why their deaths deserve to be honored and not used as tools to mock this adminstration --- that I did not vote for in either election.