Here’s something I worry a lot about: that we, as Americans, are becoming numb to the violence our own government is committing over in Iraq.

Oh, we may have heard the stats on Iraqi civilians killed: anywhere now between 90,000 and around ten times that number.

Bush, of course, lowballed it about a year ago, saying it was around 30,000 and fobbed it off like it was nothing.

But we don’t often hear the real human stories behind these appallingly astronomical numbers.

And so we’re not appalled; we’re not even moved.

Maybe, just maybe, a story from over the weekend will wake us up a bit.

This was the story about the U.S. military dropping bombs right next to a hospital in Sadr City, Baghdad.

The bombing wounded about thirty people.

At a hospital.

“Doctors and nurses ran screaming as the blasts blew out hospital windows and shook the building,” Alissa Rubin reported for The New York Times.

And there’s one other damning detail that leaked out.

The U.S. bombing damaged all 17 of the hospital’s ambulances.

Ambulances?

Hitting a hospital and ambulances is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, but that hasn’t stopped Bush for one second.

But it should stop us. It should reawaken us to the horrors being committed in our name.

May those silenced sirens and those injured Iraqis at the hospital in Sadr City snap us out of our slumber and send us into the streets.