Let's Count the Ways We've Sacrificed for the Iraq War

As children, we learned about Santa Claus -- a pleasant, harmless myth. As adults, we're being taught another myth -- that ordinary people haven't sacrificed anything during the Iraq war.

But the sacrifice myth isn't an innocent belief we shed before adolescence. And the more people accept it, the more dangerous it is.

So let's count our sacrifices. One of our biggest came at the start of the war, when we gave up freedom of the press. Media outlets agreed they'd only send journalists who'd be embedded with the troops, so everything we've read or seen has been censored.