For What Did We Die, Mr. Bush?

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100904X.shtml

For What Did We Die, Mr. Bush?
By Steve Weissman
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 08 October 2004

War is a wondrous thing. Against mere logic, it justifies itself. We must stay the course, the battered Mr. Bush keeps repeating. Or those who fell in battle will have died in vain.

No retreat. Line in the sand. More must kill and die in Iraq to give meaning to the deaths of the poor GIs who perished there before them.

No matter that Mr. Bush and Vice-President Cheney sent American troops to save us from non-existent nukes and other weapons of mass destruction. Or to avenge 9/11, in which Saddam Hussein played no part. Or to bring the Iraqis "democracy" with hand-picked collaborators, rigged caucuses, postponed elections, and - at least so far - a stubborn refusal to allow the non-secular Shiite Muslim majority to govern.

No matter that Bush and Cheney were so keen to invade that they acted in bad faith with both the United Nations and U.S. Congress. Or knowingly lied to the American people. Or failed so miserably to prepare for the long guerrilla war that now saps so much blood and money.

Let none of their colossal lies and errors distract us. American soldiers died to fulfill the mission, whatever it was, and only victory can give meaning to their sacrifice. Nearly 1100 by now, they stand as a phantom chorus demanding that American troops carry on killing and dying in Iraq until they achieve whatever Mr. Bush sent them there to do.

Or would our dead soldiers say something different if only they could speak for themselves?

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[Elidor]

1. Ah...more coffee needed

Was it there all along? Urg...must not drink red wine...ever again.

Ouch.

[WilliamPitt]

2. It's right there ar the top

[donhakman]

3. for this

[donhakman]

4. "No one shall die in vain..."

[Arianrhod]

6. Wow. How incredibly Masonic,

Illuminati, Priory of Sion that design is. . . .

I love it. :)

[arwalden]

10. That's Frightening

The only thing that I like about that vision is the word "memorial"... if you get my drift.

[Arianrhod]

9. The 1998 Tuscany Della Valpollicella I had with spaghetti

last weekend was quite nice, if a little strong. :)

[WilliamPitt]

5. .

[kentuck]

7. Why is war so easy to start and so difficult to stop ??

I remember Vietnam. I was there.

[bigtree]

8. .