Nearly three years ago, the front page of the Marin Independent Journal told about the death of a 25-year-old Marin man in Iraq. The story quoted his grief-stricken girlfriend. “Everybody should know he didn’t die in vain,” she said. “He died as a hero.”
In the wake of such tragic deaths, it may seem that persevering for victory – or at least avoiding defeat – is the least America can do. But the trajectory of the war in Iraq resembles the path of the Vietnam War. And an ongoing military conflict based on presidential deception should spur us into active opposition…
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