Grrr

I should be heading to bed, but just the callousness of this comment from right wing commentator babe Ann Coulter needed to be mentioned as soon as I saw it, rather than to sleep on it - in amongst a column saying how Rumsfeld is getting off lightly this week with signaturegate...



'On the bright side, this is the first war America has been in where the number of casualties is small enough that it would even be theoretically possible for a Defense secretary to sign each condolence letter personally. When Democrats were running the Vietnam War letters of condolence often began 'To whom it may concern' and were addressed to 'occupant'.'



Sooo, I see where Ms Coulter is coming from, Democrat war presidents bad, Republicans good - now, correct me if I am wrong, but did Nixon actually get the troops out the day after he was inaugurated? And is 1200 dead and 9000 seriously wounded a 'small enough' number for the columnist? And isn't the whole wartime America thing supposed to be non partisan? And surely JFK wriggling his way out of the Cuban Missile Crisis is known as a Dem president doing good? No? Well there's a surprise LOL...



And on the TV now is a documentary of an earlier war, World War 2. The German home front aspect - one raid on Hamburg, three quarters of the city destroyed, and forty thousand dead. Stunning in its magnitude of scale. More than the combined military and civilian death toll of Iraq AND this quake (so far, with 23 000 dead) in one night of British bombing.



Two world wars and one world cup indeed.

Pauly