More Than Seven Virginia Techs

As we look around in shock at the horror of the Virginia Tech massacre, we need to put it in perspective. This is not to take anything away from the tragedy and the terrible cost to those affected by it, but rather to look at it from a more international viewpoint. The death toll in Iraq today is 233. That is more than seven Virginia Techs.

A Virginia Tech kind of day, where only 31 innocents died, would be a startling breakthrough in Iraq. Like the students and faculty at Virginia Tech, the people of Iraq did nothing to bring the daily tragedy to them. We invaded. We brought them daily death on a scale that makes Saddam look like a choir boy. Our continued presence in Iraq will only bring more of the same, and yet our leader, President Shit-For-Brains, continues to go out proclaiming how well the "surge" is working.

More than seven Virginia Techs just today. Yeah, that's working just great and, oh, by the way, the insurgency is in its final throes too.