Sad Milestone - 3000 Dead

Condeleeza Rice on December 21, said the sacrifice of our troops in Iraq was worth it to make Iraq free. Easy for her to say. As the saying goes "she didn't have any skin in the game". None of her relatives or friends were sent home in body bags. Thank God, most of America now disagrees with her and acknowledges that the Iraq war was a waste of American lives and dollars. Add to that the fact that we killed more Iraqi's in this war than Saddam ever did, and you realize the total futility of Bush's so called "War on Terrorism". Of course Rice is not alone in being culpable. Congress failed miserably is doing it's due diligence, as did our press which gave Bush a free pass on the war. If our troops are not to have died in vain, it will only be because all of us have learned a bitter lesson about freely giving unqualified U.S. Presidents the ability to wage war without proper vetting. All of us will be paying the price for Bush's fiasco for decades to come, but most of all, the relatives and friends of the 3000+ U.S. military who paid the ultimate sacrifice. We honor them for their service and courage, but shed tears for lives they didn't get to live, families they didn't get to raise, and all of the small enjoyments in life that they will never see.