The church was empty at dusk. You stood in the stillness and looked at the place, right there on the side of the altar, where Michael Bloomberg spoke over the casket of a fallen artistocrat of the city, Riayan A. Tejedo, Marine, dead in Iraq at age 26. Bloomberg pronounced, "He died to keep the weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of ... "You heard no more. He was up there in the presence of a gallant New Yorker and he spread a lie and for me it was the start of his campaign and it ended with me not voting for him Tuesday night.
He says of Iraq, "It is not a local issue."
This was almost two years ago at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church on Wadsworth Avenue in Washington Heights, which is more than somewhat local.By myself, I have been at the deep grief of another soldier's funeral in the Bronx, one in Ridgewood in Queens, another in Brooklyn. If the kid who gets killed is local, then
-- the war is local.
This war continues without an official protest that would call out the will of the people of the City of New York and might count in a nation that by now realizes it has been the victim of a president who is a fake and a fraud and a shill and a sham and now is going around with the blind staggers.
Only the other night, in a television appearance with the opponent, Ferrer, Bloomberg was asked about withdrawing troops from Iraq and -- heavens! -- you can't do that. Why, that would mean that New York's fallen military would have died in vain. And why you could never say that about the three or four who would be killed on the day after that, and tomorrow and tomorrow. They die in the splendor of bravery, the prayer of valor. And fall in vain because the government causes them to die in vain.
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