How Many More Have To Die?

I was born after the Vietnam War, but I imagine that, at the time, this sentiment was the same:

How many more have to die? How many more have to die before everyone realizes the war in Iraq was a mistake? How many more have to die before our president will admit he was wrong? How many more have to die before this war becomes such a disgrace to our honor that every politician will stand up and say "no more"?

I was against this war from the beginning. I did not fall for the lies of the Bush administration. I watched as, slowly, more and more people switched sides from being for the war to being against it, and now, those who are against the war are in a strong majority in this country.

Despite this, we do not have a majortiy of elected officials who are against the war and do not believe the lies of the Bush administration. This needs to change. This November is your chance. Do not let it pass you by.

10 American Soldiers Killed in Iraq

By JOHN O’NEIL. Ten American soldiers were killed on Tuesday, the military announced today, bringing October’s death toll for United States forces to 68.

Kidnapping of 13 Carloads of Shiites Fuels Iraq's Sectarian...

By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer. Gunmen wearing Iraqi police uniforms kidnapped 13 carloads of Shiite Muslims today from the...

Bombings and shootings kill at least 33 in Iraq

Gunmen in both police and civilian vehicles gunned down victims including four students outside the city’s university and a well-known doctor who was leaving her house, said a Basra police captain.

In Karmah, west of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed five Iraqi soldiers, police Lt Ahmed Ali said. Gunmen stormed into the house of a Shiite family in Balad Ruz, 45 miles north-east of Baghdad, killing the mother and four adult sons and injuring the father, provincial police official Khalil Yacoub said.

US joins Iraqis in city where 91 died

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. forces were back patrolling the streets of the predominantly Shiite city of Balad on Tuesday after five days of sectarian slaughter killed 95 people, violence that surged out of control despite the efforts of Iraq's best-trained soldiers.

Iraq's 4th Army took command of the region north of Baghdad a month ago, but had been unable to stem recent attacks in Balad, where the slayings of 17 Shiite Muslim workers on Friday set off revenge killings by Shiites.