The new surge in graveyard activity

The Eugene, Oregon, newspaper (Register-Guard) carried a letter today, criticizing an editorial cartoonist for showing a guy digging extra graves in a graveyard, with some sort of comment about how this was insensitive to the troops. Sorry, but there's very little you can say about the war in Itaq without noticing that there is likely to be an increase in troops dying. Very difficult to talk about escalating a war without escalating the deaths.

So what are we supposed to do? Do we just let George Bush continue to imply that if we don't fight al-Qaeda in Iraq, they will soon be wading ashore on the Oregon Coast, ready to launch suicide attacks in Florence if we're not alert? Somebody needs to speak about what's actually happening. It's too bad we have troops in Iraq who may feel we're not supporting them. We do support them. We want them home.