The Green[e]house Effect: a Weblog

The Cost of War

Over the weekend, I got word that the has given my cousin Chris mail delivery duty with a convoy traveling in Iraq. Keep your fingers crossed.

For part of Saturday, as luck would have it, I had his kids at the house. I teased them, but took a second to ask his two-year-old daughter whether she missed her dad. She didn't answer directly -- I don't think she understood me -- but she did say that "he's defending the country."

I really don't anything to happen — with the probabilities being what they are, I don't see a point in getting nervous. But if by chance something does go wrong, who wants to explain to his daughter that the mission she lost her father to was a lie — that it had nothing to do with "defending the country" whatsoever? How does the president plan to explain that?

Take that question and apply it to all of the families who have lost people, and you'll see the true cost of the war in Iraq.

Posted by Greg Greene at June 24, 2003 11:10 PM