Who Was Number 4000?

We arrived at that number on Sunday and we’ve seen it replayed in all its sterility throughout the media this entire week.

And to be sure the numbers of dead and wounded while astounding in generalities have sadly begun over the last five years to lose their specificity, to render us unable to grasp the individual stories of lives lost for no reason and so many families left with interminable grief.

But I want to tell you about number 4,000, because he does in fact have a name and he had a wonderful life to come.

His name is Christopher M. Hake. He was a U.S. Army Staff Sargent. More importantly, he was a husband to wife Kelli and a father to 1-year-old son, Gage.
He was from Enid, Oklahoma — and he was 26 years old.

We can’t say for sure that Hake was number 4,000 of our Iraq dead because Pvt. George Delgado, 21, of Palmdale, Calif., Pfc. Andrew J. Habsieger, 22, of Festus, Mo. and Spc. Jose A. Rubio Hernandez, 24, of Mission, Texas all died in a horrible blast earlier this week when, according to the Defense Department, “their vehicle encountered an improvised explosive” in Baghdad.

I tell you this because America seems to be desensitized by this ILLEGAL, IMMORAL and UNJUSTIFIED OCCUPATION of Iraq.

Does this bring the war closer to home for ANY of you???

Does ANYONE know the name of America's FIRST killed in bush's folly?

IF you are stupid enough to believe Iraq had ANYTHING to do with 9/11 there is no hope for you. You are no doubt a STUPID REPUBLICAN and I'm quite sure that you're not even reading this.

For the rest of us, when does the revolution start?