As the fifth year anniversary of the United States' occupation of Iraq passes, we reflect on a war that was supposed to be short, supposed to cost fifty million dollars, and supposed to have minimal bloodshed. Instead we reflect on a dragged out war that has cost us between 1 and 3 trillion dollars, and far too many human lives for questionable intentions. The United States' failing economy is most often associatd with subprime mortgages, but the war has contributed greatly to this failure in the same way that the Soviet War in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Today, Thursday March 20, at 2:00 pm there will be the Students for a Democratic Society anti-war rally outside Hunter college 68th & Lexington. My friends and I will attend and hear the opinions of students from all around New York City and hopefully learn more ways to stand up against the war and make a difference. Hopefully there will be a big turn-out but as I have seen in the past, this does not neccesarily guarantee media attention. Either way, we hope for at least one person to be informed about issues concerning the war, and absorb a lot of information that is not accessible through mainstream media.
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