Bad day

Dear Diary,

I’m having a really bad day today. The Pentagon’s released a statement saying that the number of US troops killed in Iraq has reached 2,500. That is a huge amount. Luckily, because this news is so awful, no one is paying attention to the statement from campaign group Iraq Body Count that at least between 38,355 and 42,747 Iraqi civilians have died since the onset of the conflict.

It’s really annoying that most of the deaths on both sides were caused by insurgents. It’s like, WE ARE HERE TO FREE YOU. SIMMER DOWN. I can’t believe we have spent or allocated $438 billion on the "war on terror.”