by Cindy Sheehan and Sam Bostaph, Published on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Three years ago,
President George Bush ordered United States military forces to invade
and occupy Iraq. Since that invasion, which was unconstitutional,
illegal by all international standards, and immoral by any just war
theologies, the world has watched as the Bush administration has
directed the killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, civilians
and insurgents at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. It has
watched as over 2300 U.S. troops have been killed to date and almost
18,000 more wounded or maimed for life. It has watched the Bush
administration kidnap, imprison and torture hundreds of foreign
nationals, as well as American citizens, without either trial or
conviction. It has watched as Bush administration lackeys have
transported prisoners to secret prisons and then delivered them to
torturers in less-developed countries. For three years, it has heard
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Condi Rice move from one lie
to another to justify each of these actions. [read more]