"The Truth About My Dead Brother"

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/31/the-truth-about-my-dead-brother

‘The truth about my dead brother.’

Dante Zeppala writes a Daily Kos diary about his brother, Army Sgt. Sherwood Baker, who was killed in Iraq in 2004:

Sherwood was a soldier. At least for the last few months of his life, when his National Guard unit was activated. Politics is high stakes, especially for the ones who look beyond it to make the simple sacrifice of serving their country.

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He was killed two weeks after he sent that e-mail when a paint factory exploded. The mission had been aborted several times before because of safety concerns. Under the direction of a British Captain, they went looking for WMD. Sherwood saved lives, I’m told, of soldiers and an Iraqi translator.

That was over three years ago. Now, in light of Ari Fleischer’s latest propaganda campaign to continue the unabated bloodshed, I’m seeing my big brother out there again–his sacrifice somehow becoming a reason for more sacrifice, his death used to justify more death. It doesn’t make sense to me, and it wouldn’t make sense to Sher, either. <…>

Does Fleischer even know who our primary military targets and threats in Iraq are? Does he know the actual amount of foreign Al Qaeda members in Iraq?

It doesn’t matter. It didn’t matter to him in 2003, when he told lie after lie selling this war to the American public. It doesn’t matter now. This is about ideology for him, not humanity.

[countmyvote4real]

1. 1-877-222-8001

Call it over and over until they block your number. Let's waste their $.

If you get the automated response system, you can touch 3 (other) up to three times. After that, you'll have to agree to move on to the next question.

If you manage to still connect with a live agent, question them. They are obviously reading from a script and don't know what they are talking about. Your objective is to stay on the line as long as possible to drain the $ from this PR campaign.

[Fearless]

2. Maybe someone should tell him

That if the armed services keeps sacrficing straight men and women for the sake of his ill-begotten war that the gays will take over. :sarcasm: (I kid.)

Seriously though, BushCo speaks of terror like they own a monopoly on the word. And maybe they do. They've created their fair share of terror in this nation and in others. How these people made it out of grade school nevermind into the most powerful position in the world I'll never know.

We need conscription. It's plain and simple. It's the only way we're going to find enough support to put a stop to their next step, Iran. (Which will only serve to create a larger base of "terrorists" to bomb our buildings and kill our people.) The complacency of this nation is frightening. (For the record, I call by the end of October for the bombs to fall in Iran.)

[Disturbed]

3. Soldiers are tools for the Busholini Regime & their supporters.

The "Support the troops" slogan is Bullshit.

[Fearless]

4. I pity those who were brought into this war under false pretenses

It's a class war, even more than Vietnam was.