Sometimes, fate plays funny tricks. Today, I was stopped to let a military funeral go by...

[Ian David]

along Route 27 in Duxbury, Mass.

And as they went by, they passed my car with this on the side:


As my stereo was playing:

Let's Impeach The President

Let's impeach the president for lying
And misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
Who's the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
They bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_McxwuX9Wbs

I think this is the poor kid whose funeral procession I saw today:



PEMBROKE, Mass. - June 08, 2007 - The town of Pembroke is mourning the loss of one of its own today. Funeral services are being held for Private First Class Matthew Bean. He was 22 years old, and served in Iraq. As WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti reports, Beans' death ties together the story of three Massachusetts servicemen.

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MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: The flag outside Silver Lake Regional High School flutters at half mast. Bean graduated here in 2003. His guidance counselor, Robert Laughlin, remembers the kid who walked into his office four years earlier.

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CHAKRABARTI: Bean signed with the Army's 10th Mountain Division. He saw immediate and intense action. He survived three roadside bomb attacks. And saved members of his unit when he discovered another IED. The military awarded Bean the Bronze Star for that. But the young man who preferred working a bulldozer to boasting, didn't tell his family. Pastor Paul Atwater:

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CHAKRABARTI: Inspired to service by one Massachusetts soldier, Bean died searching for another. Specialist Alex Jimenez of Lawrence, one of three US soldiers abducted on May 12. On May 19, as Bean's unit went door-to-door, a sniper shot him in the head with an armor piercing bullet. Last week, Bean's family took him off life support. His high school guidance counselor, Robert Laughlin.

More:
http://www.wbur.org/news/2007/67718_20070608.asp

I salute Mr. Bean for his service and for his sacrifice during "Operation: Baby Jessica Iraq."

His intentions make his sacrifice noble, despite the evil actions of those who placed him in harm's way.




See prior thread:

New bumperstickers today! Yay!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6589967&mesg_id=6589967

[OneBlueSky]

1. I know people cringe when someone claims that the deaths in Iraq were wasted lives . . .

but if you equate "unnecessary" with "wasted," the claim seems to be pretty accurate . . .

BushCo has indeed wasted over 3,500 American lives in Iraq . . . and that doesn't even include contractor deaths, later deaths (including suicides) of military personnel back in the States, or the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis (if not more) who have perished . . .

all thoroughly unnecessary . . . all completely wasted . . .