"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

By William Rivers Pitt (edited by me)

1,097+ days since the attacks of September 11;

540+ days since the invasion and occupation of Iraq;

1,001+ American soldiers dead in Iraq;

1,132+ total Coalition soldiers dead in Iraq;

20,000+ 'medical evacuations' of American soldiers from Iraq;

12,000+ civilians dead in Iraq;

0- weapons of mass destruction;

0- democratic elections in Iraq;

0- connections between Iraq and the attacks of September 11;

0- captures of Osama bin Laden, in Iraq or anywhere else;

$1.7 trillion to be spent on Iraq in the next decade, according to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences report by the Committee on
International Security Studies (CISS).

At some point, you simply run out of words. 1,000 dead soldiers in
Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction, no connection to September 11,
torture and rape of men, women and children at Abu Ghraib prison, the
outing of a deep-cover CIA officer for political revenge, Rumsfeld ally
Ahmad Chalabi spying for Iran, the Israeli spy in the Pentagon, all the
dead civilians everywhere, the substantial failures of Bush et al. on
September 11, the crater in the economy, a gutted health care system,
the abandonment of the elderly, the evisceration of the environment,
and a federal budget deficit that guarantees a bleak future for anyone
planning to be alive sometime in the next ten years...

At some point, you simply run out of words. Let us instead have a moment of silence...