Taps Echo~ Sounding Taps
Here we are in 2009, mourning the loss of six years wasted in Iraq.
There was nothing to be won, no weapons of mass destruction to be found.
(Other than in the arsenals of the U.S Government.)
Every line that could be crossed ~ was.
Going against the United Nations.
Using pounding military air strikes in a preemptive occupation of a Sovereign Nation.
Gold Star family member Cindy Sheehan said it best, when she questioned former president Bush ~ "What is the noble cause?"
Gold Star family member Cindy Sheehan said it best, when she questioned former president Bush ~ "What is the noble cause?"
Bush never answered that question. Things had deteriorated to new lows of crimes against humanity. Torture, Rendition, abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Not only did the notion of installing Democracy at gunpoint fail, 7 years later, over Six hundred billion dollars spent, the invasion has simply spiraled out of control.
We were not greeted as liberators, this was not a slam dunk.
President Obama has inherited the Iraq & Afghanistan wars, and it is up to us to let him know we do not want more of the same. We the People have to stop allowing it.
When they look for budgets to cut, they need to see the elephant in the room- what this country spends on the Military. You have my full support to cut off all war spending, entirely.
Please take some quiet time to mourn the loss and suffering of all involved.
Also please think of ways you can become involved in being an activist for Peace.
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003
• 4,259 U.S. troops killed
• 31,089 U.S. troops injured (Iraq)
• 177 U.S. military suicides
• 1,123 U.S. contractors killed
• 151,00 Iraqi Civilian deaths
• 225 Journalists & media assistants killed
• $606 Billion ~ Cost of war
• May 1, 2003, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED was declared.
