blackcommentator.com had an interesting political cartoon about that. I'm going to post it on my LJ.

In the meantime, they have more than two of these in Iraq every day - and today there were like 185 killed or something like that in a single car-bombing incident.

But, as you say, we don't know them.

As Stalin said - and I know you know this quote - "One man's death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."