Meanwhile, the US military death toll in Iraq continues to approach the four 4,000 mark with 3,992 US troops killed. In Washington, Iraq war veteran Phil Aliff said the military is being demoralized by repeated tours.

Phil Aliff: “I think it’s incredibly demoralizing to be asked to go back to Iraq for your third, fourth, fifth deployment and have to watch more friends die, more casualties being mounted up on a war that we were given false pretenses to go in the first place. And so, I think that to honor the memory of those that have died in Iraq and to honor our soldiers that are still over there, I think we have to bring our brothers and sisters home immediately.”