This past week, the war in Iraq hit two milestones: it has now been 5 long years since this President and a Republican Congress first took us to war and since then over 4,000 Americans have been killed in combat. Adding to the pain, over 29,000 Americans have been injured and tens-of-thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed. Though these are important statistics to bear in mind as the war continues, we must also remember to go beyond these numbers and recognize that each digit represents a real person with a life, a family, and friends. As America enters into a sixth year of sending our sons and daughters into a fight that shows no sign of ending, we must again ask ourselves if this war is worth the cost. My answer: not one American soldier should ever have been sent into the Iraq dessert. Now that the war is underway, we cannot bring our troops home soon enough.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 11:05 am and is filed under Politics .