"We don't do body counts"

In the Boston Globe, Derrick Z. Jackson writes that the establishment's failure to account for civilian casualties is "the most disgusting and least discussed aspect of President Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq."

"Just one Iraqi civilian death is horrible blood on our hands given that the attack on Iraq appears to have been based on a lie. Yes, Saddam Hussein killed thousands of his own people. But an American massacre does not make things right. If Americans have half the humanity they claim, they will no longer accept Bush at face value when his officers say, 'We don't do body counts.'"