War Costs and Profits

PBS "News Hour" (that's "McNeil Lehrer" to us old folks), as is their practice, showed pictures and brief info on 9 service members who were killed recently in Afghanistan or Iraq. A few thoughts:

1. I was expecting 6 deaths because of the terrible news of that number killed by an Afghan policeman run amok, so it was extra difficult to see more;
2. WTF are we doing still engaged in these wars? Afghanistan might have been rescued back in 2001 when we first went in but now, after W and cronies led us astray into Iraq... maybe we should cut our losses;
3. Does "fair and balanced" (both lies) Fox "News" (spews) ever acknowledge the "costs" (euphemism for deaths) of these wars? I doubt it, but I won't tune in to their Goebbels-lite propaganda to confirm. Probably those costs are instead credited to the debit side on the war contractors balance sheets (war bucks).
4. Obama is the most amazing politician of my lifetime: impressive intellect, verbal skills, and humanity. Demonstrably sufficient to triumph over his fellow Dems and a marginally integrity-challenged (in both senses) opponent McCain. That said, maybe he has to toughen up a bit to compete against Republican lie-meisters soon to be in charge of the House.

God Bless the Whole WORLD. Amen.