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(2008-03-20)
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Allison: It's wrong. It was wrong to begin with. It's even more wrong now. My greatest concern is about what we're doing to that country. Obviously we're doing bad things to our country but we're doing even worse to Iraq. They want us out. We need to leave. We need to help them rebuild their country but we can do that without combat troops in their country. So I wan the combat troops out now.
Reno's Paula McDonough has been protesting the war since it began and says after four years standing in front of the federal building, public attitudes toward the war have changed.
McDonough: Those people who still support the war don't feel as empowered anymore. They're in the situation we were in five years ago when we felt very unempowered, and now the tables have turned, and now I think that's what's happening, they are feeling unempowered.
Corrine of Alpine County Voices for Peace came from Markleeville for the Reno protest. She says she's been studying the stories of Iraq War veterans and believes if all Americans could hear the words of vets, the war would end.
Corrine: If everybody heard those stories, we would stop. We would stop it right now.
According to the Department of Defense nearly 4,000 American service members have died in Iraq. Millions of Iraqis have been displaced. Estimates of civilian dead vary widely, but according to the group Iraq Body Count as many as 90,000 Iraqis have died since the war began. In 2003, the Bush administration said it would cost 50 to 60 billion dollars to oust Saddam Hussein and restore order. The price tag to date is nearing 600 billion dollars.
Brian Bahouth KUNR News.
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