Discuss “The Iraq War has gone on for too long”

Five years later, we are still at war.

March 19 marked the fifth anniversary of the United States’ military involvement in Iraq.

Since going to war in early 2003, support for the war has waned, and the protests of young Americans — Carnegie Mellon students included — have been increasingly ignored.

With an approval rating of a mere 34 percent, President Bush pushes onward in Iraq, where, apart from a rising death toll of American troops, Iraqi civilians are unfairly wounded and killed. In fact, as presidential hopeful Barack Obama noted in a speech given in Oakland last Friday, there have been more civilian casualties in Iraq than in the Civil War, World War I, or World War II.

This marker of the fifth anniversary of the war roughly...