Most Americans know that 700 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq, but less frequently publicized by the body count-obsessed press are the wounded. According to the U.S. Central Command, 3,952 men and women have been wounded in combat. These are all injuries that require evacuation and treatment outside of Iraq, and many are severe. We tend to focus too much on the admittedly dramatic power plays in Washington - on what Cheney, Bush, Powell, and Rumsfeld are doing, or what Kerry thinks about it. So leave it to Doonesbury to attempt to bring home the cost of this occupation. Gary Trudeau's strip this week covers that cost: one of its lead characters, the conservative soldier-quarterback BD, loses a leg in an insurgent attack. It's brilliant.
