My sentence (“Because fathers and mothers don’t want their children to die a heroic death.”)
simply means that parents want to see their sons and daughters come home alive. And also, refusing to kill doesn’t make you a coward. The soldiers who have had enough and refuse to return are cowards? Soldiers called certain missions ’suicide missions’.
US Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada says, “I’ve come to believe this is an illegal and an immoral war, and the order to have us deploy to Iraq is unlawful. I won’t follow this order and I won’t participate in something I believe is wrong.”

Because war is a lie.
Because this war is based on a lie, as we all know.
Because people want democracy but not the democracy of G.W. Bush.
Because G.W. Bush is a liar.
Because the President of the United States is a liar.
Because the ‘most powerful man in the world’ is a liar.
Because the president of the USA is a duh (see the thousands of cartoons about him).
Because his pet called Blair is a liar.
Because it is all about oil.
Because he already planned this war before he became president.
Because he loves to dominate.
Because certain people get rich because of this war.
Because his friends get rich because of this war.
Because the friends of his friends…
Because innocent people are being killed.
Because fathers and mothers want their children to have a life.
Because fathers and mothers don’t want their children to die a heroic death.
Because a friend lying dead in a coffin is not what your dear ones want to see.
Because war creates more war.
Because war creates extremism.
Because extremism kills.
Because killing is wrong.
Because being proud of the left leg and a few fingers of your son in a coffin killed in combat doesn’t make sense.
Because killing to make this planet a safer place is a lie.
Because sending soldiers to a second Vietnam is a crime.
Bacause the wounds of Vietnam are still raw.
Because there are still dead soldiers in Vietnam waiting in vain for peace and affection.
Because some will never touch American soil again.
Because many of those killed were literally blasted to pieces by bombing.
Because people are still being killed today in Vietnam by unexploded ordinance, particularly cluster bomblets.
Because the film is on repeat but the title is this time Iraq.
Because of the 2800+ soldiers killed in Iraq.
Because killing your own people is a crime.
Because humiliating people is a crime.
Because revenge is not an option.
Because revenge is no answer.
Because life is more precious than death.
Because those killed were killed because of the lie of the liar of all liars.
Because Nixon was a boyscout compared to Bush.
Because the world has become a more dangerous place.
Because more people will get killed; it might even be you, thanks to a president who believes.
Because the lives of mothers and fathers are destroyed.
Because children are now without a father.
Because a father never had a chance when they sent him there.
Because the mother never had a chance when they sent her there.
Because no matter what they say, we will never run out of tears.
Because we will cry an ocean and we have no ark.
Because people killed by a lie will never return.
Because their tombs will always talk to us.
Because America is not the earth’s police.
Because a soldier returns home and becomes a human being again.
Because there won’t be enough doctors and money to treat all the soldiers with trauma’s.
Because some soldiers will become drug addicts, thieves, murderers because they were told to kill.
Because children will ask us why?
Because we have to tell our children a lie.
Because most people thought the president was right.
Because we found out he is a liar.
Because he killed our children.
Because he destroys families.
Because of him thousands of veterans will commit suicide.
Because more hard drugs are needed to numb the souls of veterans.
Because those who leave in the name of democracy return without a future.
Because no future starts with war.
Because there are already so many war graves.
Because of all the names of those who died so far.
Names of Americans.
Because of the names of those who are still alive at this precise moment in time
but will be dead within ten minutes by a roadside bomb or suicide bomber.
Because there is no one who can say anything positive about this war without feeling a murderer deep inside.
Because we are afraid to dig inside ourselves and see what we are really like, in the name of freedom.
Because soldiers don’t have the freedom to stop killing.
Because they are told to kill.
Because the flag on a coffin doesn’t hide its contents.
Because a flag in a mother’s arms looks ugly.
Because the emptiness eats and eats a bigger hole, never to be filled with alcohol.
Because we could have had grandchildren.
Because there are too many people who understand exactly what it is to lose a child.
Because the pharmaceutiocal industry is rich as it is. 15
Because your war will never bring stability.
Because democracy wants the soldiers out of Iraq, out of other countries.
Because democracy has never been a firing squad.
Because democracy is the majority.
Because Americans want this war to stop, ask CNN.
Because Americans do not want a second Vietnam.
Because Americans do not believe in this president.
Because the president has no respect for the lives of his fellow countrymen.
Because people are tired of the newspaper articles and their photographs with remains.
Because all what remains is a big hole in the ground to be filled with the dead in the name of lies.
Because Americans do not kill children.
Because Americans respect others and their right to lead a normal life.
Because Americans want to be proud again of their country.
Because America is not George Bush.

“Because small war is an art, one we need to master.” And what, exactly, is small about this war? The price tag? Casualty list? Troop deployment? Disastrous impact on our standing in the world?

“Because we can no longer countenance killing fields.”??? We provided the weapons that facilitated those killing fields!

“Because lies, however big, are only temporary.” You have just totally lost me on that one. Explain the fleeting nature of our government’s lies to the families of dead Americans and Iraqis, namely: Iraq definitely has WMD. Saddam tried to buy yellowcake, that’s why we gotta go in! There are strong ties between Saddam and al-Qaeda.

Why does this deserve to be on warpost?