Bob Herbert: Consider the Living

[kpete]

Bob Herbert: Consider the Living

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The point of Memorial Day is to honor the service and the sacrifice of those who have given their lives in the nation's wars. But I suggest that we take a little time today to consider the living.

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Before you gather up the hot dogs and head out to the barbecue this afternoon, look in a mirror and ask yourself honestly if Iraq is something you would be willing to die for.

There is no shortage of weaselly politicians and misguided commentators ready to tell us that we can't leave Iraq — we just can't. Chaos will ensue. Maybe even a civil war. But what they really mean is that we can't leave as long as the war can continue to be fought by other people's children, and as long as we can continue to put this George W. Bush-inspired madness on a credit card.

Start sending the children of the well-to-do to Baghdad, and start raising taxes to pay off the many hundreds of billions that the war is costing, and watch how quickly this tragic fiasco is brought to an end.

more at:
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com/2006/05/bob-herbert-consider-living.html

[FloridaPat]

1. Well written article. Thanks for posting it.

[acmavm]

2. If there had been even the slightest possibility that we would send the

kids of the wealthy to Iraq, or if we would have made them pay their 'fair share' of what is making them even wealthier, there WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN an obscenity called 'Shock and Awe'. Never.