Give me a break. Like you care.
You are right, but not in the way you think.The one single way to trivialize the deaths of those guys--they're people, 'most all young men--would be to nullify the good which they are trying to do. And THAT is in fact the naked political objective of the Baath Party.
Very nearly as transparently, it is also the objective of journalists and other Democrats who wish to gain prestige ("political points") at the expense of George W. Bush. Whatever it costs we-the-people.
The only conceivable way to legally attack this problem is with a civil suit aimed at the perpetrators--all of them. The families of those fallen since GWB declared the end of major hostilities should sue the Baath Party (for show) and the journalists and anti-Republican politicians who have given the Ba'athiists the incentive to murder their loved ones--and a glimmer of hope of regaining power. On the latter point, the people of Iraq themselves should join in the suit.
Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate
A loss of 250 out of 148,000 is a casualty rate below 2 hundreths of one percent. 0.02% !!
*Any* millitary comander worth 2 spits in a bucket *dreams* of a death rate so incredibly low for the defeat and continued ocupation of an enemy nation.