Put down your arms, settle your trifles... before the clock strikes midnight and we are all plunged into darkness. Is it worth it to stand by, to do nothing? What is it all for? Is it for you? Is it to make the rich richer and the powerful more powerful? None of those are justifiable reasons. My own cousin is fighting in Iraq. I couldn't tell you the reason he is in the cross-fire, in the swirling desert sands of a foreign country. The reason he is putting his life at risk. What duty does this nation have to send our young sons and daughters over there. Our nation is made up of our people. They are not meant to be sent to the slaughter like animals. They have a right to live free, and die at a ripe old age. It is not right to be thrust into a war. A war with no real goal in sight; lead them back from the gates of hell before the inferno begins to engulf us all.
To our brothers stuck in Iraq it is another never-ending day. To those back home haunted by the ghosts of war it is another never-ending day. To those of us home, ignorant of suffering brought on by the destruction of war and death, it is another day to get through. My prayers are with the world.
Billions of dollars
God knows how many Iraqis dead
Four thousand official combat deaths in Iraq
Thousands upon thousands severely injured
God knows how many lives ruined
No sight of an end ahead
God Save The Republic
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
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