Iraqi Government Gives Militants Deadline

Pocatello Idaho State Journal;"NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants Tuesday in Najaf, sending plumes of black smoke over the holy city as Iraq's government warned fighters loyal to a radical cleric. U.S. Helicopter gunships and Bradley fighting vehicles were attacking militant positions in downtown Najaf, and militants returned fire with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Witnesses said Iraqi forces accompanied U.S. troops into the Old City, were stationed about 200 yards from the shrine, assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. patrol on Monday night, killing one soldier and wounding two others, one of the soldiers died. As of Monday, 958 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the U.S. Defense Department."

This has got to stop!! Our soldiers are dying. And for what!! So that we can say we help some other counrty find Peace? Or so they don't think we are a weak counrty, and come back and do what they did to cause the - 9/11 trauma? I have never hated a war as much as I do this one...I'm sorry this is just how I feel, it's become to much pain to deal with any more.....