What IS the Real Greater Tragedy?

This past weekend the number of US troops to die in Iraq reached 4000. That comes to about 2.1 deaths a day since the war in Iraq started 5 years ago. Over the next few days you will hear a lot of people claiming that this number is horrible. That is is 1 of the worst tragedies we are currently facing as Americans.

I have to disagree.

1st of all, it would have been nice if we hadn't lost a single life over there. But, that isn't true. We have. & for me each of these people is a hero who did his or her best to make the world a safer place. Unlike Vietnam, none of them were drafted. Unlike the 2974 killed on 9-11 (a definite tragedy), they had a choice. Everyone of them signed up knowing this fate was a possibility. & they still said yes. That makes them heroes for me.

My question to all those screaming about how horrible this is is why are you being silent about a greater holocaust that is going on every day? Over 3200 innocent children are being murdered every day in the USA. & that is just the number of unborn children killed by surgical abortion. That doesn't include the many more that die due to the pill or the morning after pill or an IUD. & that doesn't count those created in-vitro for embryonic stem cell research either.

2.1 a day IS sad. But, despite what some people want to claim, things are getting better in Iraq. & will get much better if we stick it out. (Given the recent info that has come out of Vietnam about how we really were winning, despite Walter Cronkite & the rest, are we missing the lesson? Or do those who want to leave really hate America & what it stands for that much that they will do all they can to destroy us?)

But isn't over 3200 deaths a day an even greater tragedy? & that is just in the USA (& remember, this number is based on the pro-Abort Guttmacher Institute data.

So, why are we OK with that number but not the number in Iraq that resuklted in so many more lives being saved from the villiany of Saddam?

I'm not OK with that fact. War is to be avoided when possible. But there are times when it is inevitable, & just under Catholic teaching. (History will determine that in this case. I can see valid arguements for both sides.) No abortion IS EVER NECESSARY! 3200 deaths a day cannot ever in any way, shape or form be justified.

So, why are we letting it still happen?