Hey Congress?? FUCK YOU! - "Moment of Silence for the Troops" grr..

[Breeze54]

Below are excerpts from a letter that a Military Families Speak Out member wrote to
her elected officials about this National Support the Troops day/moment of silence.
We are hoping that all of you can find a way to use this opportunity to communicate
with your elected officials, and to write letters to the editor of your newspaper,
saying "A moment of silence is not enough. The best way to honor the losses and sacrifices
of our loved ones and our families is to end this war and Bring Our Troops Home NOW!"
In peace and solidarity

Charley Richardson and Nancy Lessin

for MFSO

www.mfso.org
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"I am writing in reference to the resolution passed by the House and Senate last week
supporting a “National Moment of Silence”, which asks for a moment of silence to honor
the sacrifices of our troops.

As a member of a military family whose son has made this sacrifice you seek to honor,
I can not help but point out to you that our troops and their families have already
experienced three long years of silence with no honor from our representatives in Congress.

Most members of Congress have remained silent about the horror of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal"
When only rank and file soldiers were accused of crimes at Abu Ghraib,
and none of the commanders and Pentagon officials, including Rumsfeld,
who oversaw and authorized the torture were accused, you remained silent.

When our sons and daughters, and husbands and wives went without life-saving clothing and
equipment in Iraq, most remained silent. When vehicles were not armor-plated against IED’s
you remained silent. When even simple things like batteries for night vision goggles and
radios for communication were not provided, except by terrified parents and friends,
you kept silent.

The list of chilling and heartless silences can seem endless to angry and deeply disappointed military families.
There was no outraged response from Congress when the commander-in-chief taunted
and dared insurgents to “bring em on” to kill our soldiers....
No concern when the Bush administration impugns military families’ patriotism when they dare
to bring up uncomfortable basic facts about this war, no concern that thousand upon thousand
of innocent Iraqis have been killed, that contractors continue to reap fortunes on the backs
of the American people. Congress remains almost completely silent regarding the destruction
of Iraq, the lack after three years of basic water and electricity, lack of oil for Iraqis’
cars, no sewage, few jobs.

May I make some suggestions for authentic ways of honoring the service of my soldier-son?
Instead of a moment of silence designed to make Congress feel better,
how about each and every member of Congress making regular visits to the wounded soldiers
you sent to war?
How about assigning a specific staff member to help soldiers in their districts with VA
benefits and to monitor how they are doing with employment opportunities when they get home?
How about asking the soldiers who have been to Iraq for their assessments of what we should be
doing to get out, instead of blindly following the arrogant and incompetent draft-avoiders who
sent them there?

And finally,
how about honoring our troops by taking positions and voting,
not based on your re-election chances, but based on conscience and decency and honor,
those values our thousands of troops have consistently displayed for three years and
which they see all too rarely from the Congress who sent them to Iraq."

:grr:

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Moments of silence are utter bullshit.

[Breeze54]

2. You said a mouth full! TY! n/t

[IA_Seth]

3. I've had enough moments of silence...

All we get are "moments of silence" from our damn legislators that should be SPEAKING OUT against this war, and not remaining silent.

We've had a 5 year long "moment of silence" from our electeds and its about time they get loud.