VIDEO: Veterans For Peace light 3,000 candles on Santa Monica beach

by A Tuesday, Jan. 02, 2007 at 10:09 PM

Uploaded is video from the Veterans for Peace New Year’s Eve installation in response to the 3,000th US military death in Iraq. 3,000 candles were lit for each death.

The US military death toll in Iraq has reached 3,000. Dustin Donica of Spring, Texas, has the dubious honor of being the 3,000th US soldier to be killed in Iraq, he was only 22 years old.

Latest public opinion polls show that close to 70% of the public oppose the war in Iraq. Yet both the president and the newly elected congress are considering plans to escalate the war and send more troops to Iraq.