"They Keep On Dying And The Band Plays On"

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October 27, 2006 at 12:06:47

They Keep On Dying And The Band Plays On

by Thomas L. Walsh

I am so consumed with anger as I type this that my hands feel as if they are trembling uncontrollably.

As we do many nights, Wynnie and I watched the Jim Lehrer News Hour while we ate dinner. At the end of Lehrer's show, they run a scroll of young men and women killed in Iraq today. There were 17 today...I've seen more, I've seen less. Every night I see this I feel close to tears. To many, these are nameless, faceless kids. Hardly anyone knows them. I 'm sure the people in this administration, none of whose kids have ever faced the prospect of risking youthful death in order to get a chance at an education, or find some way to dig themselves out of poverty, don't know them.

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You know something? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of this miserable weasel of a president we have to put up with for two more years, regardless of the makeup of the congress.

I'm sick of his insipid fool of a vice-president, who just last week, in the middle of a full-fledged civil war in a country we had no business invading, said moronically, incredibly, that the Iraqi government is doing "remarkably well."

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William Rivers Pitt, one of my favorite political writers, listed five "we'll stay the courses" until he went on to finish his column. Get the general drift?

In the meantime, our American kids keep dying---every day---for nothing.

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The writer graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1962 with a B.A. in Journalism/Communications. After serving a stint in the United States Marine Corps, he embarked on a successful 36-year sales/sales management career with 3M Company and Lanier Worldwide, culminating in retirement and relocation in 1999 from Southern California to Driggs, Idaho, in the Teton Valley. Walsh and his wife Wynne Ann work in the wintertime as alpine ski instructors at Grand Targhee Resort, west of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He writes for several magazines, as well as a regular column in the Idaho Falls Post Register, the second largest paper in Idaho.

[babylonsister]

1. I share his anger. I maxed outrage overload long ago. nt