Double digit damn.

I make no apology for paying special attention to the American lives that have been sacrificed to Bushco's™ madness, but it's important to remember that the human cost of the current escalation is being paid by the Iraqi people in numbers largely unrecorded and, increasingly, by our allies.

While 104 American lives were added to the fatality list in April, making it one of the bloodiest months of the war for our forces, it was also the first month since January of 2005 that fatalities for coalition troops, 12 Brits and a Pole, were registered in double digits.

At least Tony Blair seems, finally, to be doing the decent thing in response.