The 4,000 of US
I had originally planned to list the names of the 4,000 men and women who have died in Iraq. However, 4,000 names is a lot of information for such a tiny space. Here is a link that lists them. http://icasualties.org/oif/US_NAMES.aspx
The Defense Dept., does not list those who died from injuries sustained in the war if that soldier was taken to Kuwait or Germany for treatment and died there. I do not know those numbers. Nor do I know how many men and women have been crippled, physically or emotionally, by this war.
ButVice Resident Cheney thinks that these deaths and sacrifices are okay because it is a "volunteer" military. It is easy for him, as it is for those of us who have never served, to dismiss the blood spilt. Thankfully, I don't know any of these people. The closest I have come is my friend Mayela, whose husband is a Marine and was sent to Afghanistan. He has returned home unscathed.
Dick, none of these men and women volunteered to be lied to so you and Halliburton could make billions of dollars. Not one of these soldiers volunteered to be used as a political tool to scare our citizenry so you could conduct business deals. Governor Bush admitted that he no longer even thinks about Osama bin Laden. Curious for the man who vowed to hunt him down a day after the twin towers in New York fell.
These 4,000... will they be immortalized for their bravery, their sacrifice? Will they be remembered by those of us who never wanted them there in the first place? I hope so.
The Defense Dept., does not list those who died from injuries sustained in the war if that soldier was taken to Kuwait or Germany for treatment and died there. I do not know those numbers. Nor do I know how many men and women have been crippled, physically or emotionally, by this war.
ButVice Resident Cheney thinks that these deaths and sacrifices are okay because it is a "volunteer" military. It is easy for him, as it is for those of us who have never served, to dismiss the blood spilt. Thankfully, I don't know any of these people. The closest I have come is my friend Mayela, whose husband is a Marine and was sent to Afghanistan. He has returned home unscathed.
Dick, none of these men and women volunteered to be lied to so you and Halliburton could make billions of dollars. Not one of these soldiers volunteered to be used as a political tool to scare our citizenry so you could conduct business deals. Governor Bush admitted that he no longer even thinks about Osama bin Laden. Curious for the man who vowed to hunt him down a day after the twin towers in New York fell.
These 4,000... will they be immortalized for their bravery, their sacrifice? Will they be remembered by those of us who never wanted them there in the first place? I hope so.
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