ELECTION DAY MASSACRE

The Election Day massacre I refer to is not the Democratic takeover of the U.S. House, the virtual deadlock in the Senate or a democratic majority of governorships. I refer instead to the 130 casualties – 63 killed and 67 wounded, including an American and British soldier killed.

That may be a typical day in Iraq but it is also a massacre. And every day the current and future leaders of our nation fail to acknowledge the failure of our military experiment in Iraq and work to end it will see another massacre. We are on track to lose 85 soldiers in Iraq this month. The legislators who ran and lost supporting this bizarre and bloody war should understand that unlike those soldiers, they get to wake up the day after they lose. The only thing they have really lost is their souls.

Originally published in Chicago Tribune Web Blog, November 8, 2006
Chicago Sun-Times, November 10, 2006