Are we serious?

Have we really reached the point in own society where this is terribly offensive?

During his first press conference as a presidential candidate at Iowa State University, Obama, discussing his opposition to the Iraq war, said the war "should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and on which we've now spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.''

Apparently, the word "wasted" got some people aroused. Ridiculous.