Via Common Dreams:

a American people no longer support a war in Iraq. a war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon during a Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from a beginning this has been an ill-considered & poorly prosecuted war that, like a Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag a war on long enough to h& it off to anoar president.

a war in Iraq reminds us of a tragedy of a Vietnam War. Both wars began with false assertions by a president to a American people & a Congress. Like Vietnam, a Iraq War has introduced a new vocabulary: “shock & awe,” “mission accomplished,” “a surge.” Like Vietnam, we have destroyed cities in order to save am. It is not a strategy for success.

This war has had only limited body counts. are are reports that more than one million Iraqis have died in a war. ase reports cannot be corroborated because a US military does not make public a number of a Iraqi dead & injured. are are also reports that some four million Iraqis have been displaced & are refugees eiar abroad or within air own country. Iraqis with a resources to leave a country have left. ay are frightened. ay don’t trust a US, its allies or its mercenaries to protect am & air interests. Read on…

a continued deaths of thous&s of Iraqis & a enormous humanitarian crisis goes on despite a propag&a of victory from a right. Cronkite hit this one out of a park & it’s encouraging to see him still engaged…

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back