ZINN: The Ultimate Betrayal

[dw]

By Howard Zinn in the April edition of The Pregressive

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The newspapers on December 30 reported that 477 American GIs had died in the war. But what is not usually reported is that for every death there are four or five men and women seriously wounded.

The term "seriously wounded" does not begin to convey the horror. Sergeant Feldbusch's mother, Charlene Feldbusch, who, along with his father, virtually lived at his bedside for two months, one day saw a young woman soldier crawling past her in the corridor. She had no legs, and her three-year-old son was trailing behind.

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A history of betrayal of our young from the Revolution to the present. Everyone who thinks that there is any such thing as a 'good' war should be made to read this--forced to because they certainly wouldn't read it willingly. dw

[muchacho]

1. war criminal

If there was a world court that could take the Ubber-Power to task (US) Bush would be hung as a war criminal.

[formactv]

3. hanged

[muchacho]

5. That too

[David Zephyr]

2. Thanks, DW, For Posting This From Howard Zinn.

One of the people I admire the most in our nation: Howard Zinn.

[NJCher]

4. that article is enough to make me cry

What a sad history; what a sad country.


Cher

[indepat]

6. "The people of the United States have been betrayed" says it all, yet

millions are still enraptured by the agenda of our war president, his pre-emptive war, seeming not to give a rat's ass over the carnage, how many others we kill, maim, leave homeless, jobless, starving, with little thought even given to our own dead and others with horrific injuries.

[kaitykaity]

7. You can feel is righteous rage pulsing through the words.

What a cleansing read. Zinn, :yourock:.

(Thanks for posting this.)

[teryang]

8. Oops, there it is...

...the ugly truth.