Tomas Young Reads in Full His Letter to Bush & Cheney, "A Message From a Dying Veteran"

[Mc Mike]

10. There was a scene in 'In the Valley of Elah'

where Tom Lee Jones' character is stuck for something to say to an amputee that he met in the VA hospital, so he says 'thank you for your service' to her. Then he sees two other amputees, so he thanks them for their service. He picks up his pace, because he has an urgent need to get out of there. He goes down the hall and passes room after room with amputees, then the day room full of amputees, then winds up in the facilities' huge parking lot, full of cars, looking around bewilderedly.

I just saw a Ted Rall cartoon that quotes the stat that 22 vets a day are committing suicide now. Where are all the pro-war right wingers who used the phrase 'Support our Troops!' to back starting the war, and to shut the anti-war side up? It sounded good to them at the time, and they got what they wanted, so they're satisfied, and won't be called to account for the results of their strategies.

Draft-dodger Cheney's Halliburton stock options are doing well. Thank goodness the repugs shot down the proposal that any company found to have ripped off the taxpayers of $100 million dollars would be ineligible to get any further governmental contracts.

In a just world, Cheney's funds would be seized, and given to Mr. Young and the IVAW to administer, to support our troops.