It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.

I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.