Bush honours (British) war victims

[Barrett808]

President George Bush is to meet the relatives of British soldiers killed in Iraq.

He will tell them their loved ones died for a "noble cause".

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When asked about the families of the 54 British soldiers killed in Iraq, he said: "I am going to meet some.

"There are two messages: One, the prayers of the American people and the prayers of the President are with them as they suffer. Secondly, I will tell them that their loved ones did not die in vain."

But the father of the youngest UK soldier killed in Iraq says Mr Bush and Mr Blair were meeting families purely for their own gain.

Robert Kelly, whose 18-year-old son Private Andrew Kelly died in a shooting accident in Basra, said: "They are not sympathetic to people like me. They don't really care that my son lost his life.

"What does George Bush care about our families and my family?"

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12926201,00.html

[Ilsa]

1. * doens't even give a shit about his own kids, much less someone

...else's.

At least these people ar esmart enough to have figured out that Shrub's noble cause is Halliburton's dividend payout.

What worries me is that as more US soldiers are KIA, their families will seek solace in some absurd notion about it being a meaningful sacrifice. Now, I'm not going to be one to argue with someone in their grief, but the denial mechanism will be in place for many. I heard it already last weekend when a mother of a dead soldier commented that she hoped the US would get really "aggressive" about the military action in Iraq, and this was before Iron Hammer began.

Getting back to numbers, if each soldiers'death affects about 100 people this way, as a multiplier, you are looking at about 40,000 people with fervent desire to escalate the war, not back out.

[leesa]

2. I often hear people say, "I wish his daughters would have to go fight in

Iraq, then he'd stop it." But I agree with you, I don't think he gives a rats ass about his own children and probably wouldn't notice they were gone unless it was noticed politically.