Ma'am; The mangled bodies of  the dead should be put on display.... Their lives should be tried in a court... And the cause for which they died out to be laid out beside them....  Poverty makes patriots just as privilage makes tyrants... Look at what those people died for... Was it worth even a single life??? Was there ever a possiblity of success as success has ever been framed before???What did they hope to gain, those poor men off to kill in a distant land???Could they not better judge the progress of history; or is history as taught to children so much propaganda???Democracy is defensive... How can we frame our action as defense??? One punch is defense... A battle in a mudhole is offense... We have stayed...What have we hoped to gain...Has anyone ever  beat the Afghans??? Has anyone beat the terrain??? Has anyone beat the Iraqis??? The whole of the nonsense if futile....These ware always poor but hopeful people, misused and thrown away, in a desparate war of conquest that was not thought out better than a pipe dream...These dead and maimed should be held up as a lesson to us all: This is the love your country has for you...This is the respect your society has for you... This society will not change its form to give hope to all; but will spill the hope of the hopeful in a distant desert....These dead condemn us...The fingers of their skeletons point out our guilt.... Democracy would defend us... Plutocracy promises us conquests to divert our attention from our growing poverty, and insecurity.... We cannot have wealth and security by stealing them from others... We need our own; and ours is long gone... Can we find our dead guilty, or ourselves??? Is it them or ourselves who have lacked courage enough to face the ultimate truth... Not one of us can live without liberty or truth.... These stupid pointless wars come out of our denial of our needs for security, for wealth, for happiness, for self government, and for truth... We knew the truth going into these wars... We knew our government had neglected our defense....We knew by a thousand bits of evidence that we had lost our society, and our democracy, and that government could control us; but would not give us justice... We knew that fact; but chose to attack enemies that were not our enemies instead of attacking our government, which is our enemy....Did we choose??? These dead should be dumped at the door to the capital to provide a fit spectacle for visiters... This is the price you pay for letting democracy slip away....We have fought for democracy and never fully received it.... Now we are fighting for a tyranny of the rich, and have become a blitzkrieg nation... Our army is an army of slaves... So long as they are the tool of the rich they are a dagger aimed at our hearts.... They are making enemies they cannot defeat for the benefit of enemies who have already defeated us... Why not just raise the swatztika over this land and give to all the Nazi salute...Liberty is dead... Let these dead men and maimed deny that fact now that they have given their lives for nothing...Thanks...Sweeney