There is a lot of talk about the growing number of US casualties is Iraq. As a committed pacifist, however, I do not think there is any such thing as an "innocent soldier". If you voluntarily join the ranks of an invading army, you accept your share of responsibility for that army's actions. My sympathy lies with the growing number of innocent Iraqi civilians who are still being killed in the cross-fire or as a result of absurd "accidents".

TIME magazine this week examines the growing political pressure on El Busho to find WMDs and clean up the Iraqi mess.