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Just a few months back the Iraqi parliament decided it would take a 2 month vacation. And why shouldn't they?

The United States is there doing the fighting and the dying.

That is not exactly true of course. The numbers of innocent Iraqi men, women and children who have been killed in this misadventure is estimated at approximately 600,000. This number is from a "survey conducted by an American and Iraqi team of public health researchers. Data were collected by Iraqi medical doctors with analysis conducted by faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.The results will be published in the British medical journal, The Lancet." *

How many of our own have died? According to the Department Of Defense the number as of July 6, 2007 is 3,590 of our service-people. *

Even our military men are starting to ask that the Iraqi war come to an end.

"Many active duty, reserve, and guard service members are concerned about the war in Iraq and support the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The Appeal for Redress provides a way in which individual service members can appeal to their Congressional Representative and US Senators to urge an end to the U.S. military occupation. Appeal for Redress will continue to collect signatures until all active duty, Guard, and active reserve soldiers are out of Iraq.

The wording of the Appeal is short and simple, patriotic and respectful in tone.

"As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home." *

You know this isn't really what we signed up to do. This isn't really what I believe America is about," an Army intelligence officer says, speaking from his base in Iraq.

"As long as we're here, we're decimating our own military," the Army officer continues.

It's his second tour in Iraq, and he explains that his problem with the war is that soldiers don't know whom to fight.

"There's no clearly defined enemy; we're not fighting a military. The insurgents are terrorists. Everybody we're shooting is technically a civilian," the officer says. Comments like this would land him in a military prison if he were identified." *

That sounds suspiciously like the words and phrases used to describe what our soldiers were faced with in Vietnam.

We stayed there and came out of it with nothing to show for it but dead, injured

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