By Patricia L Johnson

No trial, no ‘innocent until proven guilty’, no incarceration for crimes committed, just here today – DEAD tomorrow.

Military.com is reporting that during the period from June of 2003 through August of 2007, we have killed 18,832 insurgents, injured 5,196 and 119,752 have been arrested by U.S. and coalition forces.

The numbers don’t match up – there should be more wounded than dead – let’s do a comparison with our troops in Iraq.  According to the Department of Defense, as of this morning there have been 3,806 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and 28,093 wounded – or a ratio of 13.5% of the wounded are killed.

If we take use the 5,196 wounded in Iraq, and multiply it by the 13.5% we get 701 – in other words based on the same ratio there should only be 701 dead insurgents – so why are there almost 18,000 more dead?

What has this nation become?  Is the Iraq war no more than a real life video game where the players only get points for dead bodies? 

How can we possibility justify killing instead of taking these people into custody and determining whether or not they are even guilty of a crime?

Iraq isn’t a war – it’s a bloodbath.