How Much Blood In The Sand Is Enough Blood – Turn Off The Spin Cycle

Each and every day an American soldier is wounded or killed in Iraq. Each and every day American blood is spilled on Iraqi soil. Each and every day another American Soldier leaves Walter Reed Army Medical Center wearing a prosthesis because he or she left part of themselves in Iraq. Each and every day an American mother or father or brother or sister or daughter or son weeps because they lost a father or mother or brother or sister or daughter or son in Iraq. Each and every day an Iraqi mother or father, brother or sister, daughter or son weeps because they lost a father or mother or brother or sister or daughter or son in Iraq. Each and every day Iraqi civilians die at the hands of insurgents in a bloody "civil" war. Each and every day Iraqi civilians die as a result of American action in Iraq. Each and every day some American or Iraqi is being tortured because of the war in Iraq. Each and every day some American or Iraqi or Frenchman or German or Egyptian or Briton or Japanese or Korean or other nationality is being held captive because of the war in Iraq. Each and every day Osama Bin Laden is a free man. Each and every day Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen are planning new attacks on the United States. Each and every day Al Qaeda recruits new suicide bombers. Each and every day Al Qaeda recruits are training in Iraq.

I, as an average American citizen, know that enough information has been released and uncovered and published to clearly demonstrate that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. I, as an average American citizen, know that enough information has been released and uncovered and published to clearly demonstrate that Iraq had no ties to Al Qaeda. I, as an average American citizen know that enough information has been released and uncovered and published to clearly demonstrate that Iraq posed no threat what so ever to the United States . These facts alone clearly demonstrate that the United States had no reason what so ever to invade Iraq.

Today the most recent polling data available from a British polling company shows that in Iraq 80% of the Iraqi people want the United States to leave their country. Today the most recent polling data available from a British polling company shows that in Iraq 45% of the Iraqi people think it is alright to kill Americans in Iraq. Today a report by American intelligence agencies estimates today 93% of those persons participating in the Iraq insurgency are Iraqi's and something less than 7% are foreign fighters and or terrorists.

As of today the United States has spent over $180 billion dollars on the war in Iraq. As of today the national debt is over $8,138,275,014,232 and climbing. As of today American soldiers in Iraq still do not have enough body armor. As of today American soldiers in Iraq still do not have enough armored vehicles.

Today Mr. Bush will once again try to spin a case for the Iraq war. Today the 'liberal' media will once again grope for sound bites and headlines without any real reporting of facts and consequently and by default help the president spin his case for the Iraq war.

Each and every day American blood is spilled because the president and vice president of the United States lied and they continue to lie to the American people. I will not stop beating the drum for the truth about the war in Iraq until this president gets square with the American people and pulls our troops out of Iraq.

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