So much has been said about the death of soldiers in the Iraq War. There is, however, a fact that seems lost on many people. It is a war. And in war people tend to die. That is quite unfortunate, but it is the course of events. One cannot expect war without a single friendly casualty.
The US news has not, however, failed to repeat the figures of friendly soldiers killed, some 8000 friendly and coalition soldiers have been killed in this war. They do, however, make light the fact of the total number of dead. Some 654,000 people have perished in the entire war. Now, through simple deduction, not all of these deaths are American, nor are they terrorist. The vast mjority of dead, it seems, are civilians. Civilians killed by the war.
It helps no one that the press is simply showing the number of friendly soldiers dead without mentioning the total number of civilians. Hearing only one side of the story tends to give people the wrong impression.
The fact is that soldiers are paid to fight and die. Civilians are the bystandards that are killed in the process. Soldiers should not be idolized and treated as heros. Anyone can kill, look at the prisons, they are full of people who kill, where are their medals?

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The Capitalist maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein