Bob Herbert forgets most of the Iraq War dead

In his November 7 column, "And the War Goes On," Bob Herbert takes the White House to task for diverting the media's and the nation's attention while hundreds of American soldiers die in Iraq and hundreds more are wounded are ill. He makes it clear that those in power had no idea what they were doing when they began the war, and that they have no clue how to end it. The column is a scathing attack on the Bush administration, as far as it goes, but nowhere does Herbert mention the thousands of Iraqui citizens who have been killed, injured, and left homeless in the war. It is as though they never existed at all.