Spreading Freedom

You ever think that the President has pushed the war in Iraq so hard that he’s on a path he just can’t get off of?

He talks about “spreading freedom” while we keep losing more and more men on the battlefield. At what point is it too much? So we just keep going even though it may make no sense anymore?

I don’t know the answer. This is all he really has. Think about it. If he pulls out of Iraq, it was all for nothing. And it will be like saying that all those men died for nothing. Leaving Iraq, like so many of us think we should do, isn't really an option for him, politically at least.

27 January 2005

Just four days before Iraq’s historic elections, 36 US soldiers were killed yesterday in the deadliest single day for American forces since they invaded Iraq almost two years ago.

The heaviest loss was a transport helicopter crash in the western desert that killed all 31 Marines on board. The CH-53 Sea Stallion went down at 1:20am near Rutbah, a desolate town 220 miles from Baghdad. Officials in Washington said that bad weather was the most likely cause.

Four more US Marines were killed in ground fighting in Anbar province, which includes Ramadi and Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and a soldier was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade north of the capital. The losses bring the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq since the start of the war to more than 1,400, with more than 10,000 wounded. (source)