GI deaths raise anti-war sentiment

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http://www.workers.org/2005/us/ohio-0818/

GI deaths raise anti-war sentiment

The Cleveland metropolitan area remains in shock after 20 Ohio Marines, 14 from this area, recently died in Iraq. Public outpourings of grief have taken a variety of forms, from anonymous flowers to Sunday sermons. Funerals and memorials have brought out tens of thousands who never knew the men who died.

Public anger about the Marines’ deaths, however, is by and large not directed at the Iraqi people. Rather, it’s aimed at President George W. Bush.

Local TV news polls show 68 percent opposed to Bush’s handling of the Iraq war.

The father of Augie Schroder, one of the Marines killed, openly blasted the Bush administration and the Democrats who voted for the war. Schroder’s mother said, “I didn’t raise my son to be cannon fodder.”

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1. Kick for Cindy Sheehan and every father or mother who

didn't raise their sons and daughters to be cannon fodder!