This morning I saw a headline which I am sure will be repeated and propagated throughout the media and will unintelligibly spew forth from the mouths of those against the war in Iraq.

The headline read: "U.S. deaths in Iraq exceed 9/11 count" as if to infer that somehow the war is no longer worth fighting or justified, now that we have exceeded the number of deaths in our military versus the victims of 9/11. Furthermore, why should the media and those against the war in Iraq have the audacity to even put this out there when they time and again vehemently insist there is "no connection" between Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden and Iraq. (Translated Iraqi Information Services documents confiscated post war would disagree and you can read about it in Stephen Hadley's "The Connection".)

The logic of this headline is absurd upon its face. Not only is it intellectually insulting to any organism with more than a single cell, it's absurd. But again, there are those who will never progress beyond the "emotion" the headline portends to evoke.

Allow me to lend some perspective from a historical perspective. How about these headlines:

"Washington's Army Suffers, Greater Losses than the Boston Massacre!"

"US Military, Losses Exceed US Deaths on Lusitania!"

"More Die in Iwo Jima, Than Pearl Harbor!"

I am willing to bet this sick headline has been sitting in the can of the Associated Press newsroom for weeks, while writer Christopher Torchia waited with baited breath to do a quick "find and replace" to fit the latest details.

Why such a slanted headline? Again this is nothing more than the media with a political agenda attempting to recapture some of the glory days of Vietnam, except this time the stakes are much higher. Instead of a third world country falling to a communist regime, this time it will be an oil rich country in the heart of the middle east falling victim to a regime of religious nut-jobs who are hell bent and determined to make sure 9/11 happens time and again in the USA until every one of us has a prayer rug.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.