Military Moms Mourn Grim Iraq Milestone
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Categories: National Security, Media Accountability, Peace and Armed Conflict
Categories: National Security, Media Accountability, Peace and Armed Conflict
PROGRESS OHIO JOINS WITH OHIO MILITARY FAMILIES IN MOURNING THE GRIM MILESTONE REACHED SUNDAY NIGHT IN SOUTHERN BAGHDAD: US MILITARY DEATHS HAVE NOW PASSED 4,000
"Sadly, 97% of Troop Deaths in Iraq have taken place since the President declared 'Mission Accomplished'" said Progress Ohio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg. "The cost of this war continues to be felt in communities across Ohio, where we've lost 165 servicemen and women and 1,223 have been wounded, while Ohio taxpayers have shelled out $18.3 billion for the war. (Source: icasualties.org)
"The 4,000th death in Iraq occurred as the Iraqi government remains completely dysfunctional and has failed to reach political reconciliation - the stated purpose of the surge.The Bush-McCain approach to Iraq has placed U.S. forces - and U.S. taxpayers - in an interminable quagmire. If our commitment is based on the glacial pace of political progress in Iraq, we'll be recognizing more and more tragic milestones like today's."
Nine hundred and one American troops died in Iraq in last year, during the US "surge," in which 30,000 additional US troops arrived in Iraq. 2007 was the deadliest year for the US army in Iraq since 2004 when 850 were killed.
"I find CNN reporter Michael Ware who has been in Iraq since the war began five years ago more credible than Congress when he tells the world that "Iraq is functioning better on paper than in reality," said Teresa Dawson, a Columbus mother of a reservist son on a second deployment. "The so-called progress touted by war supporters have been mostly because our soldiers are compromising with local clerics and Iraqi leaders; doing the work American diplomats should be doing themselves."
"Millions of Iraqi families have been displaced and as many as 100,000 killed during the five year conflict," said Susan Handle Terbay of Dayton. "According to many well-known and respected leaders, there is no military solution for the problems in Iraq."
Gold Star mother and former congressional candidate Rosemary Palmer added: "Congress appears confused just how to move the American troops and policy out of the region. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi families continue to be devastated and lives lost on both sides, while our leaders in congress fail to act against their continued misuse."
"While most Americans continue to live their lives roughly unchanged by the war in Iraq, those American families with family deployed live each day in fear," said military mother Anna Colnar of Maumee.
Ohio military advocate, Janice Kobi, of Lancaster added: "Many now are serving their fifth tours. They fear their loved one will become the next 4,000 killed or injured in this war. A war without end."
"Sadly, 97% of Troop Deaths in Iraq have taken place since the President declared 'Mission Accomplished'" said Progress Ohio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg. "The cost of this war continues to be felt in communities across Ohio, where we've lost 165 servicemen and women and 1,223 have been wounded, while Ohio taxpayers have shelled out $18.3 billion for the war. (Source: icasualties.org)"The 4,000th death in Iraq occurred as the Iraqi government remains completely dysfunctional and has failed to reach political reconciliation - the stated purpose of the surge.The Bush-McCain approach to Iraq has placed U.S. forces - and U.S. taxpayers - in an interminable quagmire. If our commitment is based on the glacial pace of political progress in Iraq, we'll be recognizing more and more tragic milestones like today's."
Nine hundred and one American troops died in Iraq in last year, during the US "surge," in which 30,000 additional US troops arrived in Iraq. 2007 was the deadliest year for the US army in Iraq since 2004 when 850 were killed.
"I find CNN reporter Michael Ware who has been in Iraq since the war began five years ago more credible than Congress when he tells the world that "Iraq is functioning better on paper than in reality," said Teresa Dawson, a Columbus mother of a reservist son on a second deployment. "The so-called progress touted by war supporters have been mostly because our soldiers are compromising with local clerics and Iraqi leaders; doing the work American diplomats should be doing themselves."
"Millions of Iraqi families have been displaced and as many as 100,000 killed during the five year conflict," said Susan Handle Terbay of Dayton. "According to many well-known and respected leaders, there is no military solution for the problems in Iraq."
Gold Star mother and former congressional candidate Rosemary Palmer added: "Congress appears confused just how to move the American troops and policy out of the region. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi families continue to be devastated and lives lost on both sides, while our leaders in congress fail to act against their continued misuse."
"While most Americans continue to live their lives roughly unchanged by the war in Iraq, those American families with family deployed live each day in fear," said military mother Anna Colnar of Maumee.
Ohio military advocate, Janice Kobi, of Lancaster added: "Many now are serving their fifth tours. They fear their loved one will become the next 4,000 killed or injured in this war. A war without end."
