There is a great deal of hypocrisy and delusion regarding our troops in Iraq. As a veteran of the US Army who saw firsthand fellow soldiers dealing with amputations, severe mental problems, drug addiction, loss of genitals, loss of limbs, brain damage, deformed faces, loss of speech, loss of hearing,loss of girlfriends and wives, blindness, and alienation from society, war should be America's last choice.
One of my most graphic memories is the young medic who returned to the states. He had served at Hamburger Hill in Vietnam. If you are not aware of what happened there, it is worth looking up. He was a farm boy from Georgia. He did not last long. Suicide.
Bush chose to invade Iraq. And none of his pre-stated reasons turned out to be true. For this, I personally would have preferred that he and the rest of his chickenhawks been tried for treason and recieve the appropriate sentence.
But since that did not happen, the only patriotic thing to do is to remember the troops that are there, and support them by calling for their return home.
I am not a pacifist. I do believe there are just wars. Killing tens of thousands of civilians in the mideast to obtain secure sources of oil is not a just war in my book.
In my view the people running this administration are the modern equivalent of pharisees. They claim to be religious, fighters for freedom. But they are like whitened tombs, which appear outwardly clean but inside are full of dead men's bones and rotting flesh.*
A curse be upon them.
*Matthew:23 |
