Three Years and Dying

Three years of invasion/war/quagmire/civil war.

Today, I find it difficult to use the words, “Three Year Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq”. I think of anniversaries as something to celebrate. There can be no celebration of this war. Instead, today is the third annual reminder of one of, if not the worst, mistakes of our lifetime. I see it as a day to mourn all those who were killed in this struggle and a reminder that three years ago today we began killing people in Iraq and people in Iraq began killing American troops. The killing probably won’t take a day off today.

Thanks to you, President bush, you, Vice President Cheney and you, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, we have been in a war of your choosing for three years. Because of you and your poor decisions, our country invaded a non-threatening country and three years later we see a country in deadly turmoil. The invasion, the resulting deaths and the heartache are now your shame. Three years of shame is not a cause for anything but remorse, and we see no evidence to suggest that you are capable of feeling remorse. While families mourn for the ones they have lost, the battle continues, and today marks the third year of your deadly mistakes and their heartbreaking pain and mourning. The dying continues and your victory is evasive. The future looks no kinder than the past. We’re all asking when will it end and you refuse to tell us why it began, three years ago today.