All those numbers leave me dazed and confused. I think what many people are overlooking is the fact that many of these "insurgents" weren't bad people before we got there and disbanded their army and took their jobs away from them. Had Japan invaded America 60 years ago and me and you were to take up arms and fight them off, wouldn't it be preposterous for them to call you and me "insurgents"?

Iraqis didn't have a claim to kill Americans until we went over there and refused to leave. We said we'd be there for a season, not for the better part of a generation.