"The People Who Created This War Need To Be Thinking Of Families Of 18 Yr Olds Who Are Dying"

[kpete]

Car bomb targets US patrol, kills Iraqi
By BRADLEY J. BROOKS, Associated Press Writers

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At least 100 other soldiers stood erect and silent through the 30-minute ceremony. Even civilian workers at the airport of Forward Operating Base Marez on the outskirts of Mosul formed an honor line as the dead soldiers bodies' were loaded into a gray C-130 transport plane.

Soldiers refused permission to photograph the ceremony, saying the pain of the sudden loss of five comrades was too great, and that not all the families had been notified.

"President Bush should be out here watching this ramp ceremony to see what it is really like," said one soldier, who asked not to be identified.

"The people who created this war need to be thinking about the families of these 18-year-olds who are dying."

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080129/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[NewJeffCT]

1. Sure, they thought of the dying 18 year olds

they thought of them as chess pieces on a big game board.

or, plastic Risk pieces sweeping across as the world.

Or, animated figures in a video game.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. K&R!

[AlinPA]

3. And those that want it to continue should start thinking about their children and

grandchildren.

[sam sarrha]

4. why... it is just business. they don't care, never will. nothing new

[gratuitous]

5. Yes, Mr. Bush should acknowledge some of the deaths he's caused

And I want to sleep with Eva Longoria, but that's not gonna happen either.

[LibDemAlways]

6. Neither the people who created the war nor the people

who support the people who created the war care a bit about the soldiers who are fighting the war.

Last week on MSNBC there was a short interview with two politically active Florida college students, one pres. of the Dem club on campus, the other pres. of the repuke club on campus. Interviewer asked the repuke who she was supporting. She answered McCain. When asked about his stand on the war, she responded the war doesn't affect her. That's the repuke take on it in a nutshell. They support the war because it doesn't personally affect them.