The Story of Salee

Go to this site and take four minutes and thirty seconds of your time to watch this gut-wrenching video from Iraq. Salee, an adorable little Iraqi girl, tells how she lost her legs and her two friends to a precision attack by an American air-to-surface missile.

Let's be clear about the significance of this event. The best estimate is that--as of last summer--something over 80,000 Iraqis had been killed by American air attacks in Iraq -- more than all the terrorist attacks combined (including car bombs, suicide bombs, and death squads). And that is not counting the people killed when U.S. gunships shot into inhabited areas (those are not counted as air attacks); or the deaths caused by soldiers on the ground shooting into buildings as their chase real, suspected, or fantasy insurgents.

Unfortunately, Salee is the typical Iraqi casualty--wounded or killed at the hands of the American military. Probably something over 500,000 dead and an equal number wounded...so far.