Answering Cindy's Question--Jacob Hornberger

Tweet "Ask yourself: Would you be willing to give your life for any of this nonsense? (If so, then the obvious question arises: What are you doing here instead of being over there?) Would you be willing to sacrifice your spouse, siblings, or children for it?

"The other immoral part of all this, of course, is the killing of the Iraqi people, many of whom are doing nothing more than trying to rid their nation of an illegal occupier, something that at least some American men and women would do if the U.S. were ever invaded and occupied by a foreign power.

"The important point here is that even if the U.S. government was able to establish a “stable” regime in Iraq, the U.S. government had neither the moral nor the legal authority to attack and wage a war of aggression against a country that had not attacked the United States, not even to establish a “stable,” U.S.-approved regime. Since the U.S. had no right to invade Iraq, it also has no right to be occupying Iraq and, thus, no right to be killing even one single Iraqi as part of that invasion and occupation.

"My answer to Cindy Sheehan’s question remains the same as when the first U.S. soldier and the first Iraqi were killed: U.S. troops in Iraq are dying for nothing and they’re also wrongfully killing the Iraqi people.