Chicago Peace March 3/20/2005: A member of Gold Star Families for Peace shares stories from her fallen brother's journal

Chicago Peace March 3/20/2005: Gold Star Mother addresses the crowd and memorializes her son who was killed in action.

Chicago Peace March 3/20/2005: Lowering the US and Iraqi Flags to half mast to honor American soldiers and Iraqi civilians who have died as the result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Culture of Life?

I watched with great interest yesterday as President Bush scurried back to Washington to sign a law to "save" Teri Shiavo. As sad as it is, Mr. Bush is some 15 years too late.

Perhaps that time would have been better spent formulating a plan to withdraw from our pre-emptive wars and rethinking the mistaken belief that democracy can be brought at the point of a gun.

You see, I don't think we can have a "culture that promotes life" while fighting wars of choice...against an "enemy" that presented no threat.

As Mr. Bush insinuated himself into a sad family tragedy that has played through the court for years, at least one more American died, on his orders, in Iraq.