ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] It is reprehensible to me that the conservative commentators
] require we avoid talking about the needlessness of this war
] when the soldiers are in harms way without reailzing that the
] reason we (the anti-war folks) believe the war was needless
] BECAUSE of the human cost involved here.

I've wrestled with this before. I don't think its simple. You've got people whose sons and daugthers, who certainly don't agree with the pacifist left as evidenced by the fact that they are in the military, are dying, and their friends and loved ones want to beleive that they died for a reason. And you've got all of these people claiming that they died for no good reason. This sort of noise makes it hard for those families to process the deaths. Its certainly not a good reason to eliminate criticism, but how do you criticise the war while maintaining respect for it's victims. Its certainly possible, but its worth noting that care should be taken.

RE: Bush photomosaic of American dead in Iraq