The Grim Reaper Needs Righteousness Too!

Death has many faces, the Grim Reaper, Shiva The Destroyer, The Angel of Death.....but when the innocent are extinguished, the flame of humanity is diminished irrevocably.

Those who died in the World Trade Center attack, and the innocent Iraqi citizens sluffed off by us as collateral damage, have fallen into this dark moral chasm we call righteousness.

END THE KILLING !!!!!!!

STOP THE WAR !!!!!!

"STOP THE WAR !!!!!!"

This is politics by slogan at its finest. The coalition could pull out, but does anyone believe that the war would stop and that the various factions would sit down to negotiate a new Iraq? The mother of all bloody civil wars is more likely.

On the other hand a lot of well reasoned arguments can be made that the coalition presence makes matters worse, and prolongs the killing. These are tough issues, hardly addressed by sloganeering.

Also, are the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis exterminated by Sadam any less dead because it was not a "war"?

My own opinion is that "STOP THE WAR" presumably by a coalition pull out does not equal "END THE KILLING." Again in my opinion, the best chance for lasting peace and minimizing the killing is to stay the course, hand over the reigns of government in as orderly a transition as is possible, and be prepared to help a lot in the security and stabilization realms for a long time.

Whether the coalition or the U.S.A. should have gotten involved in the first place is a separate issue. We are there now and we must do our best to help stabilize Iraq.