Politicians debate and the war goes on...

Terri Gurrola, returning from a seven-month tour in Iraq, greets her daughter at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Sixty-one women in the US military have been killed by hostile fire in Iraq, indicating women are playing new roles in combat zones.

While the politicians in Washington debate the merits of the "surge" real American families are carrying the burden of this illegal and immoral war.

(Photo: Louie Favorite / AP)