We Will Not Forget

8 years and 4 days ago, our country was attacked by those it had not provoked. 2,952 Americans were murdered that day without reason or purpose.

Since that time, 4,259 US soldiers were killed in an entirely unrelated war. Entirely unrelated, yet Bush mentioned Iraq and 9/11 at least 22 times (according to Keith Obermann who quoted a study that I escapes me).

There was no Sept. 11th / Iraq connection, no WMDs, and no impending threat. There was no reason to invade, murder, and destroy. No self-defense justification. The Iraqi people were attacked by those it had not provoked.

The souls of those 2,952 were invoked to convince the American public and congress to support a horrible crime against humanity. We could have had no greater disgrace to those who were lost than to create an even more grotesque devastation of human life in their name.

This grotesque devastation of human life has killed between 93,096 -101,596 Iraqi civilians. Civilians. Not soldiers or political leaders. And certainly not anyone connected with those terrible attacks. They are civilians. Innocents.

Saddam Hussein was executed for his horrible crimes against humanity. He was tried and found guilty of being responsible for several hundreds of deaths, but not for the deaths of 400,000 people whose bodies were allegedly found in mass graves after the American invasion of Iraq. Later reports claimed the mass graves were around 5,000.

But in the end, does it matter if one is responsible for 5,000 or 400,000 deaths?or 2,952 deaths? or 100,000 deaths? None had a reason a sane man could follow. Not one for a greater good.

All senseless.