Scott Speicher, RIP

[gratuitous]

Sorry I don't have a link, but in the teeny-tiny agate type on Page A2 of today's Oregonian is this wire service report:

"U.S. investigators searching in Iraq for clues to the fate of missing Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, shot down on the opening night of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, have returned to an early hypothesis: that he died at or near where is F-18 fighter crashed."

Naturally, they didn't reach this conclusion until after they'd stoked the Rambo fantasies of a certain segment of Americans, who desperately wanted to kick Saddam's butt for holding and probably torturing some brave American flyboy for almost 12 years. Now that the propaganda goal of the rumor of Speicher still being alive has been served, investigators can now conclude that he did indeed die back in 1991. The blurb ends, though, by leaving the door open just a crack:

"{I}nvestigators haven't abandoned the search in Baghdad or reached any firm conclusion about Speicher's fate."

I have difficulty doubting that pilot Speicher, like Lazarus, will be called forth from the grave once again at a suitable time to provide another casus belli or some other rationale for furthering the ends of the BFEE.

[gratuitous]

1. Dare I kick myown post?

Yes.

[newyawker99]

2. kick

:kick:

[oasis]

3. Sadly, a brave man who died for his country was used by neocons

to fuel the fire for war. Now that he is of no further use to them, may he truly rest in peace.

[wellstone_democrat]

4. Can they stop torturing his family now?

Or do the Bushites have more uses for this poor dead man?
The whole thing was sickening and I see that they did indeed leave room for these ghouls to dig him up again and parade him around for another false cause.

[PurityOfEssence]

6. That really IS the point, isn't it?

The hate and ugliness of the raging, greed-choked, selfish gluttons is astounding; they'll use anything to terrorize this country. They will suck the hearts of their heroes' loved ones and build a frenzy to terrorize us until we let them have their way to kill foreigners and steal their treasure.

We must take back the House, Senate, Presidency and then embark on an absolute witch hunt to expose these people so they can never grab power again. There must be no remorse.

[ewagner]

5. Speicher's wife

was holding on to every last straw of hope and probably being fed rumors by the INR and Chalobi in order to garner public sympathy for her and support for the invasion.

I remember distinctly one of Bush's speeches where he said we wouldn't rest until all American MIA were accounted for.

More fear mongering. More pandering. More bullshit!

Now my heart aches for Speicher's wife. She must know by now that she has been used and abused by this callous administration.