All the people I know in Iraq, or just coming home from Iraq, or who have just come home from Iraq realise the futility of the war.
They are riding up and down the same roads just waiting to be blown up, and that futility is leading to anger.
They just want to stay alive and come home, that's it, nothing precedes that idea – just stay alive and come home.
There are about a million Iraqis who have been killed and I could apologise a million times but that will not bring back a single one of them.
One of the reasons I left the military is because I did not want to take part of that anymore, I did not want to be that anymore.
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I took charge of my life and I left and that does not undo all the things I did while I was in Iraq, it does not undo all the people that were killed while I was in Iraq.
The war does not end for us when we come home. It keeps on going over and over in our hearts.
From Iraq to civilian life in 24 hours and then you bring veterans back to a situation of not being taken care of and to a public that is apathetic about what happens to veterans.
Self defence
That is the problem, the apathy. Congress is apathetic, the administration is apathetic and the American people are apathetic. They are not at the veterans' administrations, they are not seeing what we see as veterans.
I do not understand why people are against the impeachment of president [George] Bush. It is mentioned in the constitution seven times.
I took an oath when I was 17-years-old to protect and defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic – there is no expiration date on that oath.
So when I wake up every day and I get to put on an Iraq veterans against the war t-shirt and I get to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic that is exactly what I am doing.
And if President Bush has not violated enough misdemeanors to be impeached, no-one ever will.
High crimes and misdemeanors that is the standard for impeachment.
I thought about the Iraqis in Tikrit and Falluja and Baghdad, and nothing can take away their right to self defence.
Just because its my buddies over there does not take away Iraqis' right to defend their country. And that is what they are doing they are defending their country.