There are still more than 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Now there’s a sentence that rolls effortlessly off the tongue. You don’t break into a sweat when you say it. You don’t find yourself covered in blood. The thing is, many people have a hard time grasping numbers that big. So I wonder if President Bush could take some time out of his busy schedule to read us their names. Just their names, Mr. President. Not where they’re from. Not some small detail that would reveal the richness and mystery of each of their lives. Just their names. I’ve done the math: it would take five days and five nights of nonstop reading. That’s three seconds per name, Mr. President: no sleeping, no eating, no breaks for clearing brush or launching preemptive attacks on sovereign nations.