The death toll in Iraq continues to rise day by day. Increasing numbers of Americans are dying as the news reports plans to increase the American force to more than 200,000 by year’s end. This increase is apparently in the planning stages and will include both extended terms for troops on the ground already and new combat units.
When will this ever end? How many Americans must die before the administration and the Congress recognize the futility of the occupation. The American invasion has brought nothing but increasing instability and decreasing functionality to Iraq. Public services are near an all time low. Oil production is a fraction of the pre-invasion levels. By any measure other than the deposing of Saddam Hussein the invasion and occupation has been a near complete failure.
Today we have the power to reverse this course but only if our voices are heard. Write or call your Congressional representatives. Join the various peace protests around the area. Write to your local newspaper editor. We, the people, own our future only if we take a stand and act to make the course the preferred one. Sitting silently by is no longer an acceptable course of action. We must speak up and speak out lest we lose our future entirely.
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