letters from soldiers in iraq - nytimes

[historian]

www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/opinion/21LETT.html?th

[pinetreefloat]

1. And Kerry voted for the war

We told you so.

[brainshrub]

3. Right on

[mike_c]

5. seconded!

eom

[boobooday]

2. God, those letters are heart-wrenching

BASTARDS! None of the children of these warmongers is ever in harm's way. I despise them.

Why didn't they stop Bush? Why didn't the democrats listen to the people all over the world who said NO and stand up for us?

I was watching the video from yesterday on Dennis Kucinich's site, and the family members of the soldiers who were killed made me weep. :-( This is why I have so much respect for him -- he voted against the war! And the information he had about the lying, conniving Bush regime was there for all to see, if they chose.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[peacetalksforall]

4. I can't think of what Kerry, Clinton, Shurmer, Edwards, and all

the others could do to appease me about their vote.

Always remember Paul...

(here it comes again)

First vote in the Senate - against Iraq War 1
Last vote in the Senate - against Iraq War 2.

Thanks Dennis. Thanks Paul. And all the other wise men and women in the Senate and House of Representatives who voted NO.

They belong in the Peace Hall of Fame.

[pop goes the weasel]

6. It's heart-rending

I have been holding in the depth of my feelings, trying to keep some emotional distance for my own sake. Today, reading the article at Salon.com about conditions in Iraq (We Are Sleeping Lions), I finally broke down crying reading about the 15 year old girl who was burned over most of her body from a fire caused by a kerosene heater. All the civilians over there who have lost lives, who have been horribly wounded, who have little to no proper medical treatment for their wounds, who are kidnapped, mugged, who have lost their homes--not all by direct US action but most by US negligence, a negligence which may even be part of this administration's policy; all the US troops and civilian support who have been killed or wounded and their sacrifice hidden for political purposes, all those irrevocably changed by their exposure emotionally to violence and physically to the depleted uranium that the US routinely uses; all the journalists targeted, all the sacrificial lambs sent by the "coalition of the willing" to pay for W's support of their own misleaders....

All this sorrow. All preventable. All foreseeable.

And now I'm supposed to be supportive of a candidate who was either fooled when millions were not or was callously playing politics with others' lives. That he was not the one who initiated the lie makes him marginally better than the liar-in-chief, but that's a slim margin. Yes, I am angry. I want the entire vile crew operating out of the White House to serve out the rest of their miserable lives in chains in Gitmo. But I also want an accounting from the Democrats in House and Senate. I want an apology. And I want to see meaningful action on their part toward making reparations and changing their political behavior.