Patriotism is not blindly following leaders. Patriotism means finding the truth and always questioning, no matter what. What's happening in Iraq belongs to the Bush administration. No presidential administration will ever come close to this one, but that won't stop neoconservative historians from whitewashing history. I strongly encourage you to watch Bush's War on Frontline. Know the truth behind this war, and understand that the Bush administration will not fix this problem. The Bush administration will pass this trillion-dollar quagmire onto the next president, and there will be no easy solution.

Try to count how many laws were broken. Count how many lies were told, how little planning went into the post-invasion, how little intelligence there was. Learn from this. 

Click here to watch Bush's War on Frontline. 

The total count of American soldier deaths in Iraq has officially reached 4,000. While John McCain runs around the country convincing people the war in Iraq is going well (and having quite a few "senior moments" to boot), the reality on the ground is much, much different.

The fact of the matter is the "surge" is creating some decreased level of violence in Baghdad, and this makes sense: when you put 30,000 more troops in an area, obviously things are going to improve. But what else is at play here? The fact of the matter is a good portion of the "calm" in Iraq is due in large part to the fact that the Al-Sadr militia is in a ceasefire.

And now the ceasefire is showing signs of breaking. Rogue militias are breaking off and continuing violence, which is occurring today even as I write this. 

What will happen when this ceasefire completely unravels? Does anyone out there even remember how much money we're spending on Iraq, money we're borrowing which will eventually have to be paid off? Or is everyone falling under the influence of John McCain's hopelessly optimistic musings just like the press? 

Let's hold some hearings and find out where all this money is coming from, and maybe even try to get some answers out of the Bush Administration.

Yours,

Ken Brosky 

There's not better way to celebrate the 5-year anniversary of the illegal Iraq Occupation than with a birthday cake of truth. Yes, fine citizens, it's time for you to come to grips with the painful truth that often coincides with this particular type of mistake. In this, case, the mistakes came from our so-called "experts" on the Middle East who helped cheerlead us into war.

No doubt you know a lot of people right now who still argue that, given the facts involved, the U.S. had no choice to go into war. "Everyone was fooled," they say. "You can't blame the Bush Administration just because their intelligence was faulty." Others you know might even take it a step further and say, "Well, even the experts believed Iraq was a threat. They went on TV and said so!"

Guess what? There WAS a handful of reporters who actually went out to find the truth before the war. Their names were John Walcott, Jonathon Landay, Warren Strobel and Jonathon Landay, among others at the Knight Ridder Newspapers bureau. While Bush was handing off lies as quickly as possible, Knight Ridder was questioning the links between Saddam Hussein and Iraq, questioning every lie that was being spread on the Network news stations. The reporters at Knight Ridder were actually talking to real experts in the middle east, and they were finding no evidence of WMD's in Iraq, no connection to Al Qaeda, and nothing but lies being spread by the Bush Administration.

Click here to read the full story, courtesy of the Huffington Post.

So why weren't these reporters taken more seriously? Why couldn't the Network News anchors find this information themselves? Why did every half-blown "expert" go on TV and completely cheerlead us into a war that's cost us over $1 trillion?

Find the answer.