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To Be Honored.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Courage: More than 1,400 U.S. soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. And for what? Well, for one, the freedom of 25 million people in the Mideast. For another, the security of 295 million of us back home.
The preferred number of deaths, of course, is zero. But even though Saddam Hussein's regime was quickly overwhelmed by a superior military force, casualties could not possibly have been avoided.
Still, deaths were kept to a minimum. Of the 1,432 who perished, only 137 were killed in battle before hostilities were declared over on May 1, 2003. And of those who were wounded, more than 90% survived -- the highest percentage of any war in U.S. history.
Those who died since hostilities ended were victims of the dead-enders who operated just after the end of the war and terrorists who still haven't stopped their killing spree.
The victims' sacrifice, however, is no less noble than the deaths of those killed in battle. Iraq has been a war zone since the middle of March 2003, with the future of Iraq -- and likely the entire Middle East -- hanging in the balance.
The sacrifice of the coalition soldiers paid off handsomely in Sunday's elections. As many as 8 million Iraqis voted, most of them unmolested. Of that number, only 35 were killed by terrorist bombs and mortar attacks.
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