From a Nov. 16 truthdig.com interview with U.S. Rep Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio): "Today, it was announced that 2,000 more Marines are being sent to Anbar province, a place which was already declared 'lost' for the purposes of military occupation. Why are we sacrificing our young men and women? Why are we keeping them in an impossible situation? Why are we stoking a civil war with our continued presence? We have to take a new direction in Iraq, and that direction is out. "