I read an article in Newsweek that has letters from some of the 3250+ soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who have been killed in combat in Iraq. Their families shared these letters with Newsweek because they wanted America to know that there are real human beings with children and wives, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters who sacrificed more than their lives, they sacrificed their futures and their relationships.
There is a video link with letters and audio tapes. They are heartbreaking. These people deserve better than the pathetic loser of a commander they have. They deserve a Congress that will finally hold someone to account for the failures and lies that got us into this situation and they deserve a public who will demand they are given the best benefits, medical treatment and equipment to ensure they come home as quickly and safely as possible.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Wolfowitz, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and the rest are cowards who have no right to use these men and women to further their political agendas or there millionaire careers.
Listen and watch, if you can, and tell me how any of this war has been worth the loss of a single soldier’s life. What have we gained? What have the Iraqi’s gained?
Obama and McCain got into political hot water for saying these lives have been wasted and they quickly re-framed their comments and changed the word to sacrificed.
They have been wasted. You can see it in the eyes of their children and spouses. You can hear it in their voices and read it in their letters. These brave men and women died for the vanity of a few political ideologues with a theory.
They deserve better.
2 Comments
April 18, 2007 at 12:19 pm
amen.
May 10, 2007 at 6:40 am
Amen! they need to bring them home