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Holy f-cking chr-st George!
Seriously, how do you sleep at night, knowing that thousands of young men and women are at that very moment writhing in pain from the wounds your unnecessary war caused them. And that 3,860 young men and women are never coming home, and it's their children, spouses, parents, and families that will live the never ending pain of losing their sons and daughters, and their mothers and fathers.
Maybe you really don't care George.
Unfortunately, many of us don't have that luxury, as we actually have family members over there fighting the war that you wanted, and that you are now trying so hard not to finish until you are comfortably out of office and able to blame the whole sorry mess on the next president.
At this point, you have so screwed up this pointless war that further prolonging it will only have the effect of increasing the casualties and the cost. But it's not your money or your family is it George.
If you don't feel sickened by this reality, take another look at what you have done George, and try, just try, to accept that the rest of us are real people, just like you, even though we are not wealthy and privileged like you.
Yes George. Although they are more humble goals like getting an education, getting a job, getting married, raising families, etc., those that are not wealthy also have hopes, dreams, and for growing thousands your war is ending these dreams, and for what?
You really don't care, do you George.
OK, I'm moved by all the pictures of veterans, but the ugly guy with them ruins the shots.
These guys are victims of bush the insane, as are all the dead and maimed on both sides. Completely unnecessary and a dirty crying shame. Too disgusting for words, this little man who used fear and abused the trust of these men for empire and greed. He needs to be stopped as soon as possible.
This is the human face of Powell's Pottery Barn analogy, "You break it, you pay for it."
Only it's these soldiers who paid for it. Bush only has to feel guilty for a few hours, then he's whisked off to another state dinner of foie gras and truffles.
Still believe there's a God? I'm beginning to wonder...
Bush is disgusting.
God bless those soldiers who have simply done what has been asked of them. We all need to put aside our differences and help these heroes however we can.
President Bush was wearing "a huge smile," but his eyes were red and he looked drained by the time he got to the last widow, Crystal Owen, a third-grade schoolteacher who had lost her husband in Iraq. "Tell me about Mike," he said immediately. "I don't want my husband's death to be in vain," she told him. The president apologized repeatedly for her husband's death. When Owen began to cry, Bush grabbed her hands. "Don't worry, don't worry," he said, though his choking voice suggested that he had worries of his own. The president and the widow hugged. "It felt like he could have been my dad," Owen recalled to NEWSWEEK. "It was like we were old friends. It almost makes me sad. In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time."
Bush likes to play the resolute War Leader, and he has never been known for admitting mistakes or regret. But that does not mean that he is free of doubt. For the past three years, Bush has been living in two worlds--unwavering and confident in public, but sometimes stricken in private. Bush's meetings with widows like Crystal Owen offer a rare look inside that inner, private world.
Privately, Bush has met with about 900 family members of some 270 soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. The conversations are closed to the press, and Bush does not like to talk about what goes on in these grieving sessions, though there have been hints. An hour after he met with the families at Fort Bragg in June, he gave a hard-line speech on national TV. When he mentioned the sacrifice of military families, his lips visibly quivered.
Lets take a moment to appreciate the fact that our nation's leader has taken the time to meet with the family members of 270 of the 1,853 soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq. Which means that Bush has met with the families of 14.5% of all the soldiers who have died. Including Cindy Sheehan and her family. And not including the multitude of wounded soldiers he's met with.
Has any American leader ever done more? I don't know for sure, but if there has been Presidents who have done I can't imagine there are many of them.
And you know what makes these gestures by the President all the more appealing? The fact that he rarely politicizes them. A lot of politicians would make a really big deal out of missing with the families of fallen soldiers, yet with Bush we hardly ever hear about it.
God Bless our troops on Veterans Day!
Sgt. James Kevin Downs - lost both legs
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Army Spc. Rick Yarosh - burned lost face
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Marine Corps Capt. Ryan Voltin - burned face
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Army PFC Nicholas Clark - lost leg
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Sgt. Chris Edwards - third degree burns covering 79 percent of his body
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Army. Sgt. Brandon Adam - lost both legs
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"Explosions shatter and sever legs and arms. They char flesh and drive debris deep into the soft tissue that remains. Unattached muscles, nerves and tendons dangle. Red-hot shrapnel sometimes punctures torsos below waist-length body armor, ripping bowels and bladders. Concussions bruise skulls and brains. Soldiers thrown into the air are injured again when they hit ground." - David Wood, "Amputees Returning to Duty." Times-Picayune
"They come here 19, 20 years old and when I see them leaving, missing limbs -- I've seen up to three limbs gone off people, and I don't think in our generation we've seen this amount of harm done to young people," [Maj. Gene] Delaune
"Most Americans haven't seen the growing legion of wounded troops returning from Iraq who are cared for at military facilities sealed off from the public. The media, in turn, have focused on the hit-and-run guerrilla attacks that claim one or two GIs in Iraq almost daily. Little attention has been paid to the long, difficult and very personal struggles that ensue in wards at BAMC and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington
- Christenson, Sig. San Antonio Express-News, 18 Aug 2003
"In the Persian Gulf War, about three troops were wounded in action for every fatality. In Iraq, about seven are being wounded for every one killed."
- Bavley, Alan. "New technology and medical practices save lives in Iraq." Knight Ridder
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"And believe me, no one suffers more than their president" - Laura Bush
"They misunderestimated me."—Bento
R.I.P., America
Monster !
Bush the sociopath visits with smirk, thanks the military guys for dying and getting totally disfigured for my oil interest and corporate friends who will make BILLIONS while you will come home and struggle and get no benefits and basically get pissed on from the Bush regime that's Bush's gratitude to the soldiers for fighting his and the cronies oil war fortune ,they'll be sitting very comfortably,while the soldiers will be homeless, disfigured,or coming home in cofffins ,that's how sociopaths like Bush and his cronies are,their void of any human emotions ,and get excitement at all this death and destruction sick isn't it
DEAD TROOPS = HALLIBRUTON PROFITS = MONEY IN BUSH/CHENEY BLOODY POCKETS.
USA - Spreading death around the world for Oil and arms profits.
Americans will continue to die to fill the pockets of the mega rich criminals.
I'd like Mr. Bush to go and see the human carnage in Iraqi hospitals his policy decisions have created for innocent Iraqi children, women and men. I'd like him to ask them what they feel about his bringing "democracy" to Iraq.
Read Dynasty of Death - The bush family
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First Posted: 11- 9-07 05:33 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM