Death toll reaches 4000

I just read an article about the death toll in Iraq. It talked about how 18 months after the war began, 1000 died, and now after three and a half years later 3000 more have passed. The death toll has slowly been increasing each year. Just this year suicide attacks surged and warnings of larger more frequent attacks surfaced. "Al Qaeda and extreme elements of the (Mehdi Army) have every incentive to find ways to raise the U.S. casualties between now and November and will be seeking ways to use bombings to raise the rate and number," said Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. After reading this article, it made me think of Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11. I think this article works perfectly with the film's powerful, yet simple ending.

When Mr.Moore is asking other congress men to sign their children to war, not one signs their son or daughter. And it makes you think, the people who choose to declare war and sitting with their kids safe at home. How would they vote if their son or daughter was on the battlefront? It angers me to think about how unfortunate it is for the kids who lost their lives for such a selfish and foolish government. Moore was on tv with Bill O'Reilly, and asked him the question, "Would you sacrifice your son's life to end the war?" Bill responded, "Not my son, I'd sacrifice myself." Of course any one would say they would give their life or that they would go fight the war. But how many would actually go, I doubt many. I think it's time we bring our troops home and send out all the supporters of the war, along with the government officials who voted yes. Maybe then they'll realize what they're put our friends and family through.


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