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11/27/2005:

"What Are They Dying For?"

"We don't know the course of our own struggle will take [sic], or the sacrifices that might lie ahead."
GW Bush, November 11, 2005.

"Akers said his son is burned on more than 75 percent of his body. . . . 'We've been talking to the doctors in Germany. It's just a case of if he can get through the infection,' Don Akers said. 'The biggest part of the burn is his face. The odds are not in his favor'. "
Cadillac News, November 24, 2005.

On November 24 the number of US dead in Iraq for the month reached 75. In October, 96 Americans were killed. The corpse total is over 2100. More than 7,000 of the 15,804 wounded (as at November 24) have lost limbs or minds or will bear hideous disfigurement to their graves.

What for? Why have they died or been maimed? What righteous cause has made it imperative for thousands of young Americans to have their lives cut short or be horribly mutilated?
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