2000 DEAD

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000

President Bush prepared the nation for more casualties, saying the "defense of freedom is worth our sacrifice."

Bush said:

"Each loss of life is heartbreaking. And the best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission and lay the foundation of peace by spreading freedom."

BUT WAIT:






Sgt. James Kinlow served with Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade. He died on July 24.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/25/iraq.soldier.story.ap/index.html


2000 Dead. It's not so easy to recite the casualty statistics as a worthwhile sacrifice when you put faces on the dead. Sgt. James Kinlow wrote his own obituary before he left for Iraq and six weeks later, he was dead.

Why are we fighting for freedom and democracy in Iraq when we don't even have it at home? We live under Bush dictatorship. Our President dictated that we were going to war and we went. We had no freedom of choice. Our soldiers are dying and there is nothing any of us can do to stop it.

IF the Iraqi people want liberty from oppression, they need to fight for it for themselves and shed their own blood. If we attempt to buy it for them with American blood, it won't mean enough to them to maintain it when we're done dying for them. We need to hand over the reigns to the Iraqi people and allow them to earn freedom for themselves. That's the only way it will be meaningful to them.