Shared burdens of war

In case you believed President Bush's rhetoric that the Iraq aggression was a truly multinational effort with a widely shared burden, this Associated Press piece reminds you otherwise.

There have been 2021 coalition soldiers killed in Iraq; 1828, about 90.5%, of them American (and that's assuming that the Pentagon is correctly recording casualties from the Iraq theater, something that has been called into question). The British military has lost 93 soldiers, the Italians 26 and every other coalition member 18 or fewer.

In other words, the US military has lost nine times more soldiers than the rest of the coalition combined. Some shared burden.