Prattle Fatigue

If you accept the offical estimates, nearly 1,900 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq and over 13,000 have been wounded.

Focusing on the dead and injured, while understandable, does a grave disservice to the real American casualties. These victims can be ignored no longer. Listen to their voices:

"I think everyone is tired. I was tired of the war before the invasion of Iraq and my involvement has been rather more peripheral than GWB's."

Such suffering calls out for greater exposure. I propose that the widow Reynolds travel to Texas and announce the opening of "Camp Cracker," to honor the sacrifice of these war-weary men and women. They have sacrificed their credibility, their attention spans, yea, the very circulation in their well-upholstered asses to support the Administration's destruction of Iraq; in return, all they ask is to not be asked to do anything.

They have earned their naps. Let a grateful nation tuck them in.