It makes me sick when Bush uses some dead soldiers family as his reason for continuing war

[niceypoo]

Basically Bush claimed, in his speech, that the soldiers want to die in iraq and the families of soldiers are willing to sacrifice their children for him. Bush quoted some grieving family as saying this, "We believe this is a war of good and evil and we must win ... even if it cost the life of our own son. Freedom is not free." It is sad that bush has to take advantage of some grieving family that cannot come to grips with the fact that we were lied into iraq and that everything we have been told about this war has turned out to be false. It is probabally too painful for them to admit that they encouraged their son to die for a pack of lies.

A friend of mine has a brother that is now on his third tour. He was just sent back this June. When he was here last spring, she had to be careful waking him in the morning; he woke up swinging. She had to wake him up with a broom handle, otherwise she would get hit by him. He said it was because they were mortared a lot and they would wake up to total chaos. He was continually going to jail for hitting people and couldn't hold a job because he would get fired for fighting. She told me that he never got in fights before going to Iraq. He told her, "You think I'm crazy now? Wait til I come back this third time." He was basically going nuts, he knew it, the military knew it, his family knew it, but they wouldn't let him out. Nobody can get out, he said. What was making him crazy was killing civilians. He was a driver and sometimes a guard at a base. He said that when they were driving in a convoy, they would go 60-70 mph and wouldn't stop, or even slow down, for anybody. This meant running over people who weren't fast enough to get out of the way, usually elderly people or children. When he was guarding the perimeter of his base, they would shoot and kill anyone who came within a hundred yards or so. They would warn them, in english, then kill them. He said he shot a lot of civilians this way. It was making him crazy. He was completely normal before the war. His life was ruined, she told me. She says that she and her family fear he will end up another homeless vet, if he lives through Iraq.

My friend was with her brother in public and some redneck came up to them and asked her brother, "how many sand niggers did you kill?" She said that he just looked at the guy with disgust and said nothing. He told her that people say stuff like that to him a lot. There are a lot of really sick people in this country. They just cannot come to terms with the fact that they have been, and are being, lied to. Perhaps it is easier to just keep believing all this bullshit than come to realize that your whole system of belief is a based on lies and bullshit, even if it costs you your child. Perhaps it is their way of dealing with the guilt of having supported this madness that killed their son.

[librechik]

1. Bush is a mass murderer gloating over his victims' blood

plain and simple--Manichean Bush is Evil. Period.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Profoundly sad and tragic...

so many more just like him.:cry:

[Fridays Child]

3. There's a name for people like Bush...

...carrion eater.

[TahitiNut]

6. Necroconservatives and necrocapitalists.

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

4. In Chimpland, the only way to validate a dead soldier's sacrifice

is to make other soldiers die after him in a perpetual state of war--the mission itself is meaningless. Once the war ends, and it sinks in as a needless disaster, a lot of these "true-believer" families are going to eventually come to the truly awful realization that their loved ones died for nothing, that they were misled and manipulated. It's very sad--but at some point denial will fall away and reality will hit them in the gut.

[niceypoo]

5. That rationale is madness...

...and I have heard him use it repeatedly. Soldiers have to continue dying so that soldiers that died previous to them will not have died in vain. It's his recipe for endless war without reason.