Let's honor Iraqi war dead too

[txprog]

So many dead, so many conscripts who had no choice but to serve. I simply cannot accept what has happened. We invade a country that is not at war with anybody, not a threat to anybody, has done nothing to precipate an attack. We kill their people - soldiers and civilians alike. Despite these circumstances, we call their soldiers "the bad guys," creating an enemy out of necessity, not out of reality.

I do not accept this. I do not accept that we killed 100,000 in the first Gulf War, many needlessly and maybe illegally on the so-called "highway of death." Colin Powell says this is something he can't be concerned with.

What is wrong here? How can we as a nation try to walk the moral high ground and kill so many with such utter disregard? We have failed to learn the lessons of Vietnam. War should be an avenue of last resort, not a tool to implement the foreign policy initiatives of extremist and incompetent civilians. Our country will suffer for years to come because of this mis-adventure.

Yes, let's honor the Iraqi war dead. They too are sons, fathers, brothers, and friends. They were not bad guys, most just poor unfortunate souls living and caught up in a place and a situation that no person deserved. May they rest in peace.