I can not support what the USA is about to do.  I can not support this war.  We do not have UN backing, we do not have a clear reason, we should not be within days of starting a war. 

   While the majority of US citizens do agree with the war, they do not agree with going ahead without UN backing.  Yet, we are.  And all we're hearing about is Saddam this, Saddam that.  Nothing of the people of Iraq. 

   Innocent civilians,  like you and I, people going to work and school,  who will die.  I'm not going to coat it in the cloak of 'collateral damage.'  People are not collateral damage.  They are human beings just like you and I.  They need oxygen, they need food and water.  They love, they are loved. 

   They are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children. 

   Our forces will kill some of them.  Solely for 'regime change.'  A regime, that I must remember, we helped put into place.  A man and his sons who we helped into power, who we've decided must leave. 

   That's not all though.  We will lose military personnel.  Our men and women will die.  Surely we will lose some of them.  How they're families must ache at this thought.  I can not imagine the torture they spouses, parents, and children of our military personnel are feeling. 

   In the end, no one will win.  Innocent Iraqi citizens will die.  USA and our allies will lose military personnel.  And we may very will be starting the end of the world as we know it.  World War III beckons just beyond the horizon of this war. 

   I'm scared.  No, I'm horrified.  We may very well be harkening the financial ruin of our country.  Not to mention the political ramifications of going to war without UN backing. 

   Surely there will be more terrorist attacks and soon.  Without a doubt, someone will attempt to kill our citizens in protest of what the USA is about to do.  Yet, I know in my head that with all Bush has said, it is too late for us to back down. 

   There will be no peace.  Within a few days people will die.  My head, the logical part,  can accept this.  People die.  We are dying from the moment we are conceived.  From the second sperm hits egg are time until death decreases. 

   My heart is in agony, I do not want us to do this.  I do not want people to die, needlessly.  Yet, I am powerless to stop this. 

  I sit here, thousands of miles from our troops, in my warm and comfortable home, willing our President to not do this.  Wishing I could wake up from this seemlessly endless nightmare.  Wanting my utopia of peace the world over to appear. 

   Praying that my friends who are in the Middle East, under orders of their Commander in Chief, that they will come home to us.  That they will come home in one piece dressed in their uniforms, with a bag slung over their shoulder, not draped around their bodies. 

   On the eve of war, there's nothing more I can say, except, love one another, and let them know that now.  We never know what tomorrow will bring. 

PS. to those who I know are reading this solely due to my comments re: Natalie Maines, remember this:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -Theodore Roosevelt 
Suzy