Waste!

[Bigmack]

Our local paper had this article today about a young woman killed in Iraq.
Doesn't anybody have the balls to start calling this war what it is.... a waste of our brave young people?... not to mention our money.

The 58,000 US lives lost in Vietnam were a waste, and now we keep pissing away lives on another unwinable war.

The media is full of how brave these young people are, but nothing about what their deaths WON'T accomplish.
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Teen soldier had "backbone of steel"

By Alex Fryer Seattle Times staff reporter

Eighteen-year-old Pfc. Sam Huff was born with a man's name.

But she was a consummate "girlie-girl," said her father, Robert Huff.

She liked to wear false eyelashes and played flute in her high-school band. Last July, she joined the Army, the first step in a career she hoped would take her to the FBI.

On April 18, Huff, an only child, became the 37th U.S. female to die in combat since 2003.

Yesterday, her parents and comrades gathered in a Fort Lewis chapel to recall Huff's independent spirit and her unfulfilled ambitions.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002250745_funeral23m.html

[Tsiyu]

1. This breaks my heart

as they all do.

Your thread title is exactly the word for this mess.

Many of our best and brightest are lost forever. Thank you for sharing the remembrance of Pfc. Sam Huff...