"You think about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died and
all the soldiers who have come back wounded and maimed. You read the
paper and four more soldiers last week died and mercenaries have killed
27 people in Baghdad, mercenaries who are getting money from our tax
dollars that should be going to protect the troops, and I'm depressed
about the Cubs game. There's a disconnect there. My point in all
seriousness is that it's such an abstraction, and this government has
asked us to sacrifice nothing for this. The troops are sacrificing
everything. It just seems like an obscenity."