About 150 protesters sat in front of the White House on Monday to savor their last meal before starting a hunger strike that some said will continue until American troops return from Iraq.  The demonstration marking the Independence Day holiday was organized by CodePink, a women's anti-war group that called on volunteers to abstain from eating for 24 hours from midnight on Monday.  Some protesters said their fast would continue beyond the July 4th holiday.  The demonstration aimed at highlighting the costs of the war, in which more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers and thousands of Iraqis have died, said CodePink spokeswoman Meredith Dearborn.

I personally am not for the war in Iraq, but I would not fast to protest the war.  I commend those that are fasting, but I feel they are wasting their time.  My reason is that I don't believe that President Bush cares about how much American soldiers have died overseas over a pointless and meaningless war.  To this date, the war has not been justified because WMD's have still not be found in Iraq which was the reason for our invasion.

I do not support the president's "lie and die" stance on the war simply because of one simple principle.  We will never win the war on terror.  It's like saying we will one day win the war on drugs or the war on crime in America.  Neither of these concepts will ever be achieved.

No true American, Democrat or Republican, honestly wants the U.S. to lose the war in Iraq but based on the way things have been going, I feel we already lost it.  No matter what the turn out in the future will be, in the majority of America's eyes as well as the world's eyes, we lost this war.  They will look back and say that all our brave soldiers died for a meaningless cause.

No one can change the past so there is no use debating if we should or shouldn't have invaded Iraq.  What needs to be debated is what needs to be done about the war today.  I think a good plan would fit somewhere between Bush's "lie and die" plan and Kerry's "cut and run" plan.  Quite frankly, we just need some sort of plan to be formulated.  You don't go into a war and have no sort of plan to when it will be over.  Surely America doesn't want to be fighting in Iraq forever.  Maybe the fasting will actually make a statement to the world and open up the eyes of the politicians, including Bush, to make a valid decision on what America should do.