It is still 2006 and 3,000 US service members have been killed in Iraq. This is more than died on 9-11. This in a war that has raged longer than the US was in WWII. This is as the Whitehouse contemplates sending another 20,000 troops to Iraq. This is after the Pentagon has asked for another $90,000,000,000 to fight this war in 2007. This is after the American people have spent $300,000,000,000 on this war (well, at least our kids will). 3,000 dead in a war that 70% of the American people want over. 3,000 dead Americans and 650,000 dead Iraqis in a war that is illegal and immoral.

And now what is our government doing while our military men and women are dieing?
They are talking about supporting our troops but not about ending their needless deaths.

And what is the news media reporting? Anything but the 3000th US service member dead for a lie.

And what will we do about it…?

In 1971 as part of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, John Kerry went to Washington DC with Operation Dewey Canyon III (the very famous event culminating in members of VVAW throwing their metals at the capital building) and said this in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

America did not heed the warnings of VVAW, so now as a member of IVAW, I pose this question to Senator Kerry, to the Whitehouse, to the Pentagon, and to the American people:

How many more need to die for this mistake?