The Real WMD

I was watching CNN today and heard, "The president said he was making good on his 2008 campaign pledge to end a war," and I thought to myself, about time. And then I heard the rest of it, "that has divided the nation since it began in 2003, and claimed more than 4,400 American lives." And the gross injustice of it all slammed into my gut like a sucker punch. 
Type in "Iraq War" in Google Images and you're bombarded with images of US troops. Type in "Iraqi lives lost in war" in Google Web and the first link will point you to your required  website, while the next six or so will link you to the heroic deaths of US troops. The Iraqi death toll as estimated last year, 2010 (reported by ABC News), was over 100 000. None of these news reports now even make mention of that fact - which, I'm sure, has grown since. Forget troops, Iraqi CIVILIANS, hundreds of thousands of them, have paid the ultimate price. 

But how many people stop to think of all of that? Why is it, that the lives of 4,400 American's is worth more than 100 000 (+) Iraqi's? It is, undoubtedly, a good decision to pull US troops out of Iraq, but what I DO NOT CONDONE, is the way US troops are painted as such heroic martyrs - especially since, if they hadn't gone in there in the first place, there wouldn't be this huge bloody mess to contend with. 
Has this war on Iraq divided the American nation? Well, it has gutted  the Iraqi nation. It has wiped out entire families; maimed innocent civilians; parents have had to bury their children; children's' dreams for their future were simply, 'to be alive' - actually for many, even that was worse than not to be.
I find it intolerably disgusting, when the value of a human life varies according to which nation you belong to. The real weapon of mass destruction, is the debasing of human life - to believe that a peoples life is lesser to ones own, is to believe that the loss of that life is inconsequential - it's how every war began.