AND SO I RECIEVED THIS TONIGHT ...

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000 after four soldiers killed in Baghdad...

There is so great a sadness in this ... and yet this simple one sentence "news alert" does not begin to tell the story of the hundred of thousands of Iraqi citizens that are dead or to recount the lives of American soldiers (or their families) who are physically and mentally wounded.

Why? Would someone please tell me why? Just one damn person tell me why?

"A living nightmare"...

This sad story is everywhere. "A Japanese proverb says, 'Action without vision is a nightmare. There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight." Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez
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