In the last two days twenty of our soldiers from Ohio have died in Iraq. Twenty in two days! It's tragic. And it's ironic, since just yesterday there was an election held in Ohio where a Republican rubber-stamper was voted back into office (by the thinnest of margins in a red dominated district). This same rubber-stamper, when asked about Iraq recently, said that no mistakes were made there, period. Such stupidity could be tolerated last year but today it's clear to everyone that the war is lost and that the time to get out is now.
It's so frustrating. These twenty guys died for Bush's arrogance and ignorance only. A vote for a Republican is a vote for death. Deaths of Americans. Deaths of Iraqis. In infinite baseless war waged by the poor.
These people who talk about how they support their troops by voting Republican make me sick. How is putting our troops into an urban warfare meat grinder that does nothing but incense the Arab world and spreads anti-Americanism supporting our troops?
How is it that being a true American means rubber-stamping infinite war? The founding father's weren't rubber stampers. They were rebels. And they built a constitution that was dependent on the populace to monitor the government in order to be successful. It's our role as Americans to ask our leaders why fourteen soldiers who dedicated their lives to ensuring our peace and freedom were killed in a war against an enemy who never attacked us and with whom all shreds of pretense for war have been nullified.
Wake up. Speak out.
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