The more I think about this, the more I'm utterly dumbfounded.

The Pentagon just confirmed to the Associated Press that 108 captives have died while in U.S. custody - "most of them violently."

To put this in context, 114 United States soliders died while in the custody of the North Vietnamese during the 13-year duration of the Vietnam war.

In two years, we have murdered nearly as many prisoners as the North Vietnamese did in thirteen. Remember that the North Vietnamese for a time were the poster regime for barbarism in America.

I distinctly recall a conversation with two people in my office when this whole thing first broke last year. They said, "It's not like anyone DIED or anything." And when I dug up reports in foreign press that seven prisoners had been beaten to death, they said, "That's only seven - out of how many? Plus, how can you believe foreign press?"

What about 108 dead? Is that enough? Get your heads out of the sand, HF and MM.