Iraq war: tragedy of errors

[Gunit_Sangh]

This was printed in today's Lexington Herald Leader. Posting just four paragraphs is totally inadequate. I invite you to read it. The message is just as powerful as Cindy Sheehan's in Crawford.


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For those of you who still trust the Bush administration -- and your percentage diminishes every day -- let me tell you that my nephew Chase Johnson Comley did not die to preserve your freedoms. He was not presented flowers by grateful Iraqis, welcoming him as their liberator.

He died fighting a senseless war for oil and contracts, ensuring the increased wealth of President Bush and his administration's friends.

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And then think about Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld when he visits our troops. Picture his heavily armored vehicle, a machine impregnable to almost anything the insurgents toss in its path, while our troops are not provided sufficient armor to survive an improvised explosive device.

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For many Americans, the war is an abstraction. But it is not an abstraction for the innocent Iraqis whose lives have been devastated by our smart bombs. And it certainly is not an abstraction for those of us who have heard the words that change lives forever.

Rest of article

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editorial/12364399.htm

[livvy]

1. Very powerful indeed.

So thoughtful and well-written with so much evident grief. I feel so much for all these families. Such a waste. So much suffering.
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