Inaugural costs decried on LI

[cal04]

In November, Jeanette Urbina's soldier son telephoned from Iraq with a simple request. It was cold there, Army Spc. Wilfredo F. Urbina told her. Could she send him a sweater? Three days later he was dead. An explosive device had sliced into the Humvee he was in while he was patrolling in Baghdad.

Wednesday, parents of several Iraq veterans said they are angry that more than $17 million will be spent on security for Thursday's inaugural festivities for President George W. Bush, while troops he sent to war still lack sufficient armor to keep them alive.

"What is the life of a soldier worth?" asked Jeanette Urbina, of Baldwin, whose son was killed Nov. 29. "Is one or two thousand dollars too much to ask? They are fighting for democracy and freedom. They need more protection."

"How dare he," said Dorine Kenney, of Bay Shore. Her son, Spc. Jacob S. Fletcher, was killed in Iraq Nov. 13, 2003, when a bomb detonated near a bus he was riding in. "He's paying so much for his safety, but what about the troops?" Kenney said. "What about the steel for the trucks, for the security?" Kenney said she decided to speak out when she and Jeanette Urbina encountered each other by chance while visiting their son's graves, which lie within steps of each other at Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn.

http://www.newsday.com/ny-liinaug0120,0,7395658.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix

[genieroze]

1. * doesn't care about anyone but his rich corporate whores. eom

[Erika]

2. Bush says "let them eat cake"

Figuratively, Bush couldn't give a damn about our kids. He was born and educated in Connetticut, and a Yale Cheerleader. He wasn't to be found in his AG service except for photo-ops. He's a little frat boy and why anyone could consider honoring him as CIC is wildly absurd.

He's always been a party boy and he could care less about Americans dying, or he wouldn't have sent them over there. He is as disgusting POS who has ever been in the WH and I hope his place in "history" is recorded as such.