In Memoriam

Thanks to The Blog of Death for reminding us of the costs of war:

As of today (5/30), 1,836 coalition troops have died in the war in Iraq. That statistic breaks down into 1,656 Americans, 89 Britons, 10 Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 21 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians.

And this morning I awoke to news that the government of Iraq reported 12,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in the past 18 months. Not that we're counting them ...