>Today the Associated Press reported (early in a very conservative count)
>over 3,000 confirmed Iraqi civilian deaths in our celebrated little war.
>
>So the number of innocent people we killed by attacking Iraq far surpasses
>the number of innocent people killed by the terrible 9/11 attacks.
>
>As Montaigne says in his essay on cannibals, "I am not sorry we note the
>barbarous horror of such an action, but grieved that prying so narrowly into
>their faults we are so blinded in ours."