justice again.

Last year, due to increasing and un-relenting pressure from the people of England, and even from his own Labor Party, Tony Blair announced he would resign sometime before September of 2007. The reason the public felt he should step down was largely due to his involvement in our war with Iraq. The British seem to feel Blair had joined haphazardly, backing the U.S. without sufficient weighing of the facts involved, and therefore endangering the lives of British soldiers without good cause. It was bad form to the highest degree. The British appear quite angry their own men and women had been killed in Iraq... specifically when they, the British public, realized there was never any “imminent threat” posed by Iraq against themselves or against us (the U.S.). In fact, one of Britain’s only terrorist attacks to date happened after the Iraqi invasion (the July 2005 London subway bombing).

Now we see another similar case which is currently (not) making the regular news. The people of Israel have called for their Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to step down. Their reasons? The greatest was that he led them into a summer-long war against Lebanon. The citizens feel that Olmert went to war without a clear-cut reason, without a strategy for fighting, winning, or exiting.

Sound familiar?

I simply do not understand anymore. The people of both Britain and Israel realize that a Commander who leads their country into war without a reason and without a plan, and causes the death of their fellow citizens, no longer deserves to lead, and indeed has shown himself an unfit commander.

How many more American soldiers have to be killed or maimed before the American public wakes up and impeaches George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and everyone else involved in dragging us into this Iraq quagmire?


Some figures, as of January 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Defense:

U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq: 3,021 (now over 3,500)
British Soldiers Killed: 129
Iraqi Soldiers/Police Killed: 5,965
Iraqi Civilians Killed: 70,100 - 601,000 (estimated)
Defense Contractors Killed: 665
Journalists Killed: 146
American Soldiers Wounded: 23,000

Saddam Hussein was put to death for killing 128 people.

Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in 2003, with less than 500 American soldiers killed.

That was four years and 3,000 American deaths ago.