The Last Soldier to Die in Iraq

[zitiboy]

"As the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Sunday, friends and family of the first and last
American fighters killed in combat were cherishing their memories rather than dwelling on
whether the war and their sacrifice was worth it.

Nearly 4,500 American fighters died before the last U.S. troops crossed the border into Kuwait.
David Hickman, 23, of Greensboro was the last of those war casualties, killed in November by
the kind of improvised bomb that was a signature weapon of this war.

"David Emanuel Hickman. Doesn't that name just bring out a smile to your face?" said Logan
Trainum, one of Hickman's closest friends, at the funeral where the soldier was laid to rest
after a ceremony in a Greensboro church packed with friends and family.

Trainum says he's not spending time asking why Hickman died: "There aren't enough facts
available for me to have a defined opinion about things. I'm just sad, and pray that my best
friend didn't lay down his life for nothing."

NC soldier, 23, was last US troop killed in Iraq - Yahoo! News

9 years. No WMD's. One trillion dollars. 4500 dead Americans. A nation of folks that don't like us.

[zitiboy]

"The president hasn't made a decision to do anything with respect to Iraq."
-- Rumsfeld, 9/16/02

"Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out."
-- Bush, to Rice and three senators, March 2002

"America must not act as "an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into
capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments."
-- VP Cheney, August 27, 2000

"We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq."
-- The Decider, pushing 4500 soliders into Arlington graves

Zitiboy- Your words ring so true, so sad and we have got to get American politicians to stop creating these false pretense wars and do more diplomatically. American history if full of wars that were provoked by the US, Mexican American War, Spanish American War, Iraq. And I am personally still out on the verdict of what FDR knew and others knew and when they knew it about the attack on Pearl Harbor. We needed a provocation to join that war as Americans were against getting involved in another European war. I may be all wet and I am NOT a conspriracy theorists but on that one, I am still leary. I contacted The National Archives last July and over (210) files are still considered classified or secret regarding WWII I was led to believe these will NOT be declassified until sometime after 2020. Hmmmmmm. If what I was told was true, what bombs might be inside those dossiers? (I did agree with the Afghanistan war and we should have finished that, and left but the diversion to Iraq is what took us down the wrong path).