Double or Nothing

So this is Christmas: 2978 American soldiers killed in Iraq since the beginning of the war. That makes it official. We have equaled the number of Americans killed on Sept. 11th, barely a mile from where I am now.

I would ask what they died for, but no matter what, it wasn't necessary, it wasn't justified. Oil, revenge, or an honest belief in what they were doing, nobody can say for sure, well, except the ones who will never talk, but it doesn't matter.

2007 will see many calls from the Americans, the British, the Republicans, and even some Democrats to renew our forces (and sacrifice more soldiers) into the hell fires of Iraq. We must come together as a nation to say no to our lawmakers and to demand the immediate planning for a staged withdrawal and complete turnover of security to the Iraqi people and let them fight for their future.

Some of us may have broken it, but the whole country sure as hell doesn't have to pay for it.