Strategy and Tactics are not the issue

Change the strategy or the tactics and the American people, by and large, do not care. To keep a war going long-term it better be real important. This war was not needed. The longer we stay there the worse the future may be. How many more American citizens and families have to be butchered until the Iraqi's solve their problem we helped create for them? As of today more than 27,000 families across the nation are having to deal with husbands, sons, daughters, and mothers that are out of commission. 3776 of them are dead and tens of thousands more are broken physically or mentally or both.

When Bush and his Republican thugs talk of a long war, or operations in Iraq keeping us safe, they are really talking about setting off little terrorist attacks in thousands of American homes each year. Because when the men come with somber faces and tears to talk to the family members of how this man or that was killed or wounded it is a little terrorist attack on the wellbeing of a family. All of a sudden violence is in the living room. The "thanks from a grateful nation" is pretty useless when you are having to come to terms with your partner being an invalid for life, or worse.

It sickens me when I head dunderheads talk about how much safer we are here. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of American families living in limbo, anarchy, fear, and pain because of the stupid war in Iraq. Millions of citizens are indirectly effected by this stupid war on a daily basis. The longer it goes on the less of an abstraction it becomes and the more personal the loss to all of us. That is why you should NEVER go to war unless you have no choice and it is forced upon you. This was not the case in Iraq. Noble as the goal was, it is not worth the cost. One American family broken would have been too high a cost concerning Iraq.