Both wars are horrific tragedies growing worse.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

Yesterday in Baquba north of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded, destroying a neighborhood and taking the lives of 30 men, women and children and severely injuring 46 more people. Nearby, a U.S. soldier was also blown up by a homemade bomb. These bombings were the 3rd and 4th this week in the area.

While in Afghanistan U.S. military officials said they would be escalating the war. They claimed their strategy was solid but that the war has been going badly due to flawed implementation under prior leadership.

Both wars are horrific tragedies growing worse. President Obama could end them but instead has chosen to continue one and escalate the other. We will hope that greater wisdom and compassion will soon prevail and that cease fires will be declared and peace agreements negotiated and we will raise our voices accordingly.

Otherwise, the U.S. military occupations will continue under puppet governments, blood will continue to be spilled and what is left of the U.S. treasure will be gone.

(posted from http://candlelightvigils.blogspot.com/)

[brandus01]

1. so true, but what power do me and you have to stop it

[saigon68]

3. Get everyone to vote for Ralph Nader or some one like him

[T Wolf]

4. absolutely NONE. If millions in the streets of the world over the last eight, no make that ten,

years could not bring sanity to American foreign policy; if electing a Democratic president and giving him huge margins in Congress could not bring the troops home but actually sent more of them to the Afghan meat grinder; if atrocities galore could not shame this nation into peace; ...

The MIC rolls along its merry way. Obama's wars are just another item on the list of things he has fucked up.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

6. Re: "The MIC rolls along its merry way."

Yeah it does...makes me sick.

[Hissyspit]

2. U.S. troop deaths up in Afghanistan this week, and civilian deaths, too,

if I'm not mistaken.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. But..but..they're about to wipe out the Ho Chi Minh Trail..no, what was the other lost war.

It's hard to keep up with the wars we lose "spreading democracy".

[femrap]

7. War is a

damn racket. They serve no purpose but to amuse evil sadists and enrich the scummy arms dealers.