Iraq 4000 Deaths

His name is Christopher M. Hake. He was a U.S. Army Staff Sargent. More importantly, he was a husband to wife Kelli and a father to 1-year-old son, Gage.

It has been obvious for a long time that our presence in Iraq is making things worse, and that it is not a false choice between supporting the troops and ending the war.

Repentance means a fundamental change in direction and that is what we must now call for in U.S. foreign policy.

The real subtext of the Obama campaign last week was to attack Clinton in order to distract from Obama's association with his anti-American preacher. National security went un-addressed.

She is still officially listed among the "nonhostile -- accident" victims. So the mystery remains.

Why is the Pax World family of mutual funds investing in a defense contractor with thousands of employees deployed in the Persian Gulf?

Had the mainstream media covered Winter Soldier more Americans might have heard the testimony of Clifton Hicks, who soberly described the aftermath of a massacre in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad.

If Dick Cheney wants to get a rise out of the troops in theater, he should just keep talking.

It only makes sense that the media have focused non-stop on the looming threat of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago while paying scant attention to the fact that the presumptive Republican nominee for president apparently doesn't have a clue about what's going on in the Middle East. And with the U.S. death toll hitting 4,000, John McCain's tenuous grasp on what is happening in the region becomes all the more worthy of attention. READ MORE John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy: John McCain's glowing post-visit assessment of conditions in Iraq, and Hillary Clinton's hyperbolically harrowing recollections of her 1996 trip to Bosnia both stand as shining examples of what the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge dubbed "the eyewitness fallacy." In a brilliant essay, Muggeridge described public figures of strong conviction throughout history -- many of them greatly admired and well-meaning -- who, in eyewitness accounts, saw what they wanted to see, and became what they wanted to be. READ MORE

As we mark this painful milestone, we must ask ourselves: what is the moral justification for allowing this war to continue?

Even the reduction of violence promoted daily by Bush and the Iraq war apologists lacks credibility.

Surely the fact that just over a quarter of adults could say about how many Americans had been killed in Iraq represents an indictment of our media and the actions of our political leaders.

One Iraq fatality that doesn't yet count -- let's call him #4001 -- offers more of a clue to the true dimensions of the war than most of the rest.

Here is a new song for 4000 American soldiers and the 89,000 Iraqi civilians and all the others who have died as a result of George Bush's war.

Today, like yesterday and tomorrow, we will lose some of the finest Americans we have. That is a harsh reminder that disastrous policy decisions have tragic consequences.

BAGHDAD — Sometime soon, the U.S. military will suffer the 4,000th death of the war in Iraq. When the 1,000th American died in September 2004, ...