A few dead soldiers, but hey, it's still a great war!

Murdoch says US death toll in Iraq is 'minute': "'The death toll, certainly of Americans there, by the terms of any previous war are quite minute,' Mr Murdoch told reporters at a conference in Tokyo...

...'I believe it was right to go in there. I believe that certainly the execution that has followed that has included many mistakes,' he said.

'But that's easy to say after the event. It's much easier to criticise the conduct of the war today in the media than it was in previous wars. I'm sure there were great mistakes made in the past, too.

'I think that one forgets that American foreign policy for the whole of the (20th) century saved the world from terrible things three times, for which they certainly got no thanks and for which they never had imperial ambitions at all.'"

If it was his young son dead in Iraq, it would only be a 'minute' setback for Rupert. You can always get another kid, but where are you going to get another trampled heap of Babylonian mud-brick history.