Death Toll Rising

Six retired Generals independently called for the Donald Rumsfeld to resign this week. They did not discuss this among themselves. It was spontaneous. After a quiet month of March the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq is exploding. So is the country. Civilians are being slaughtered night and day. Bodies are being discovered when the sun rises.

Vietnam took more than a decade and 58,249 American service members. After three years we have lost 3,272 at this writing.

No one counts the civilians in either war. Estimates vary widely.

Rumsfeld’s resignation will probably not come. If it does as long as Bush is in Office it may not matter.