Time for Action--Use VPI Tragedy for Base

America suffered a terrible tragedy this week with the murder of 32 people at VPI. The media frenzy is on. We are treated to constant reminders of just how and when and where so many died. At the same time the tragedy that is Iraq today continues. Every day more Iraqis die a violent death than were killed in Virginia this week. Every death in either country is a senseless loss.

What is America to do? How can we take a tragedy in our own country and make something positive from the event? I suggest we each and every one put ourselves for just a moment into the mind of the parents who just lost a child. Think how very sad their life just became. How every will those parents deal with this loss? Be angry. Be very angry.

Now turn that anger to a positive note. Think of the Iraqi mothers and fathers losing their children each and every day. Be angry. Be very angry. Turn that anger toward the administration that insists we stay the course in Iraq. If we, the American people, insist on an end to the occupation, the needless deaths will no longer be our responsibility. Until the time American troops are withdrawn from Iraq every death, every family broken is a burden put directly on our shoulders.