4,000 in Bush's War

In the legendary Battle of Thermopylae 300 brave Spartans (including their King) sacrificed their lives to protect their homeland from invading forces. It's the most famous defensive suicidal mission in history. The death of 300 Spartans may have been tragic, but over the course of history those 300 deaths served a grander purpose: glorification of resistance to tyranny and a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. 

Now contrast that with the confirmed 4,000 dead U.S. soldiers in the Iraq war. How will their deaths be remembered and perceived by the next generation? And we're only talking about American soldiers here. Mallika Chopra almost gave up counting at 282. PZ Myers just lamented on this same issue.

"Once, four dead in Ohio could stir us. Now, four thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, it doesn't matter … we have all become dead inside."

I wonder how Bush's War would go down in history. Here's a clue. This documentary is a must-see.

FRONTLINE: Bush's War  -- "From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge -- for seven years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence.

"Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk draws on one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism -- more than 40 FRONTLINE reports on Iraq and the war on terror. Combined with fresh reporting and new interviews, Bush's War will be the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history."