As we Americans stand idly by...

Wouldn't you know it? George Bush is going to keep waging war in Iraq til the end of his term. He'll leave 140,000 troops there until hell freezes over. And just let the next president solve the ungodly mess he created with a preemptive war. Yes, America starting a war. And then when the next president brings the troops home and ends the war, Bush will say the war would have been won by America if only we had stayed the course. Maybe just another 100,000 deaths. For an obscene and immoral war. An unnecessary war. Costing trillions and trillions of dollars. Yes, money that could have been spent on pretty much ending poverty in the U.S. For domestic improvements. For so much good. Instead, what do we have? The most shameful war in American history. As we Americans stand idly by...and let it happen. --Jim Broede