Happy Anniversary

Happy Belated Iraq War Anniversary! It has been 5 long years since the Iraq War! It has also been 5 years since Bush declared Mission Accomplished, though no one is really sure what mission he thought we had accomplished. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September 11, 2001, and still goes on," Bush said that day in 2003. You are correct President Bush. It has been going and going and going on long enough to make the energizer bunny proud.
4,000 American military lives have been lost. Yesterday alone, which by the way was Easter Sunday, 74 people died. This includes civilians, soliders, etc. www.iraqbodycount.org estimates around 82,000 to 89,000 civilians have died on account of this war. Those are the documented deaths, meaning that the number could be much higher. As I have written before, the cost to the American economy has been tremendous. It is estimated that the war in 2008 will cost $12 billion a month. Money that our deficit cannot afford.
Meanwhile, John McCain says that everything in Iraq has been going well. He doesn't want to change a thing. Violence has been ebbed lately, but cost and lack of purpose have not been. What are we there for now? We are there to keep stability in a mess we created, to try and stop terrorism that we drew to the country, and to do the jobs of the Iraqi government who have been given opportunities, supplies and who have their own money to do their work. It seems to me like it is time to pull out. It seems to me that American lives are worth more than that. It is time to bring them home!