In Memoriam: To the untold thousands who will continue to die IN VAIN.

[Philosoraptor]

For who knows how many more Memorial Days?





A soldier from 2nd platoon, Delta Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment in Quarghuli village near Youssifiyah, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq combs Friday, May 25, 2007 through the debris left behind thirteen days after a May 12 ambush left four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi soldier dead and three missing. Their comrade, Pfc. Joseph Anzack, 20, from Torrance, Calif. was found floating in the Euphrates river on Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

A general view of a burned marketplace after an airstrike by the U.S forces in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr city, early Friday,May 25, 2007. US forces said in a statement that the airstrike was made to support, a joint Iraqi and American ground force who came under attack during door-to-door searches in the area.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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A soldier maimed by war now questions the mission
By Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff | August 2, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bush came and sat by the side of Sergeant Brian Fountaine, a 24-year-old tank commander from Dorchester, a gung-ho soldier who had lobbied to be deployed a second time. Now Fountaine was among the wounded at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, his legs amputated below the knees after an explosion June 8 ripped apart the Humvee in which he was riding.
The president chatted about the sergeant's beloved Red Sox, but made no reference to the war, the soldier said.

If the topic had come up, the president might not have liked what Fountaine had on his mind. In a dramatic change of heart, Fountaine now considers the war a military quagmire in which American soldiers are caught in a deadly vise between irreconcilable enemies.

In his view, troop morale has plummeted, suicide has increased, and the sacrifices being made in American blood and treasure suddenly seem questionable.

[Annces]

1. It is my job to keep talking about Al Qaeda

and how dangerous they are, sayeth Bush. Let's keep the carnage going.

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[Philosoraptor]

2. With so much money being made, we shouldn't dwell on the negative.

The economy is roaring you know.

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[EFerrari]

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[magellan]

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:cry:

[mmonk]

8. Somebody will profit from it.

Hope I don't have to post bad news anytime soon.

[Swamp Rat]

9. k&r

[FloridaJudy]

10. K&R n/t

[bdamomma]

11. damn them all those bushies to hell

bush sent other americans off to war, but not me or my daughters says bush, how many more repigs would say this, do not send my child to Iraq, unbelieveable if there is a hell I hope these thugs find it and stay there.

[uppityperson]

12. Conversation today with a stranger, "as if we need 1 day to remember the war dead, and more every...

day". Random stranger at local feed store (getting chicken food).

[Decruiter]

13. Oh dear god, I am so very sorry. Please make it go away. Protect

these men and women being put in harms way.

I'm at an absolute loss.

I don't know how to help anymore. I just cry alot.

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[Joanie Baloney]

15. A Memorial Day Haiku

Hot, shameful, angry
Salt water rivulets crease
My soul forever.


JB

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