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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:59 AM Jun 2014

Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American [View all]

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"To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.?"
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Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American [View all] wildbilln864 Jun 2014 OP

More importantly people should send it to the media and to malaise Jun 2014 #1

Should be read packman Jun 2014 #2

How about we focus a little on the determinant party ballyhoo Jun 2014 #8

kick samsingh Jun 2014 #3

Unfortunately, his target audience... 3catwoman3 Jun 2014 #4

i hope more people read it samsingh Jun 2014 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Jun 2014 #6

One of the best letters I have ballyhoo Jun 2014 #7

Monday morning kick! n/t wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #9

And another later Monday morning kick. Really great read... riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #10

Shared on FB! K&R for exposure of truth!!! Thanks for writing this Tomas!! hue Jun 2014 #11

this really needs to go viral. it needs to get out there, BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #12

It did go viral over a year ago when it was written. ohheckyeah Jun 2014 #18

oh!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #19

You're welcome.... ohheckyeah Jun 2014 #21

There are no words that I can think of to express my sorry for this man, Paper Roses Jun 2014 #13

if only there was one for them to burn in. wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #15

kick samsingh Jun 2014 #14

I read this once before heaven05 Jun 2014 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author heaven05 Jun 2014 #17

Unfortunately, DICK Cheney gives less than a fuck LondonReign2 Jun 2014 #20

I believe Mr. Cheney's response, in full, would be: gratuitous Jun 2014 #22

Touched my heart, to the very core. Hubert Flottz Jun 2014 #23

Most of the comments on that site are as disgusting & despicable as Bush/Cheney/etc. catbyte Jun 2014 #24

K&R for every lurking freak who followed the lies of Bush and Cheney MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #25

Dick Cheney, George Bush or any of the other war criminals from that regime will never see this liberal N proud Jun 2014 #26

indeed! n/t wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #27