Mission Still Unaccomplished

According the our esteemed President and Commander-in-Chief, "Operation Iraqi Freedom" ended four years ago today on May 1, 2003.


Here is the start of Bush's speech:

Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause.)

On that date, only 139 American soldiers had died. Since then, 3212 have died. That doesn't count the over 62,760 Iraqi civilians who have died. No one ever seems to counts them.

As an American citizen, voter and taxpayer, I am opening demanding to Mr. Bush that he bring the vast majority of our men and women home from the Gulf. Let's give diplomacy a try and our troops and equipment a rest. Four years in a desert is never good for any car - think about what its doing to our military's trucks, tanks, personnel carriers, helicopters, etc. You should see the amount of sand that gets in my stuff after one day at the beach. After four years at the beach? Oh man...I don't even want to think about it...