On one side of the ledger, we have: more than 3,600 U.S. soldiers killed, and more than 25,000 wounded. The financial cost of the war is now $10 billion a month - three months of the war would pay for the expansion in children's health care that the President says is too expensive. Nearly a million Iraqis have died, and four million have been made refugees inside or outside the country.
But on the other side of the ledger: we have brought the Iraqis "democracy." Supporters of the war like Joe Lieberman, echoing Madeleine Albright's defense of 500,000 Iraqi deaths due to sanctions (yes, the same Madeleine Albright now lecturing Senator Obama on how diplomacy works), say the price is right.
