Mother's grief turns to anger over war

[UpInArms]

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/03/21/389789.html

WASHINGTON -- Jean Prewitt can't shake the image of her only son's final hours. She pictures him trying to crawl to safety through a gun fight after his convoy was ambushed in Iraq, a huge hole in his right thigh.

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Now, after a year of fighting -- U.S. President George W. Bush announced the start of the war on the evening of March 19 in Washington, when it was already March 20 in Iraq -- more than 500 Americans have been killed. Countless Iraqis are also dead -- no one is keeping track of the number -- and thousands of wounded soldiers are coming home to little fanfare and uncertain futures.

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"The more I hear about it, the madder I get," says the retired postal worker who lives in Birmingham, Ala. "He lied. I've lost all respect for him."

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[saigon68]

1. Sad

By this fall there will be hundreds MORE like her.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. Kick

Well written and important. Deserves to be read.

[EdGy]

3. but he died to make Iraq safe for the missionaries to bring Jesus...

to those poor benighted, ignorant heathen Iraqis... </sarcasm>

I wonder how many people will have to die before the criminals in the White House are brought to justice?

[ninkasi]

4. As the mother of two sons...

I can only imagine how she feels. For those of you too young to have grown children, and grandchildren, I can assure you that the fierce love and protectiveness we feel when our sons are babies never lessens.

While none of my loved ones are in Iraq, I mourn for other mother's sons and daughters no less than if they were my own. These are America's children, our future, spilling their blood for the enrichment of a few greedy, heartless bastards. It must end.

[Skittles]

7. nin, while I'm sure it's true for most parents

it's not true for all. I could use my mother as a prime example.

[Mari333]

5. She can join the rest of us in mfso and get her anger out

where it needs to go..straight to DC, where the real terrorists reside, the people who actually killed her child.
http://www.mfso.org

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Every death I hear of brings me back...

...to 3/17/03 - possibly one of the saddest days in my life. My 18 year old nephew - my brother and sister-in-law's only son - was killed in an auto accident the night before. Myself and my other brothers and sisters all gathered at their house that morning. The sadness and the pain was unspeakable. I'm sorry... I can't get further into it for fear of breaking down, even to this day.

Anyhow, every time I hear of another death in Iraq, I think how their families must be feeling. The pain, the sadness, the people coming and going, bearing meat trays and salads. And the eyes... everyone's eyes, red, puffy, empty.

My nephew's accident was just that, an accident. However, every one of the 582 deaths that resulted from the Iraq war were preventable. The war was unnecessary. The war has done absolutely nothing to make this country safer. Not one iota. Every single one of the 582 deaths were in vain. And that terribly sad scene I witnessed a year ago at my brother's home has been repeated 582 times since then. And it didn't have to happen. :(

[leftchick]

8. 582....

instead of saying over 500 dead they should have said almost 600. So fucking sad... :(

[saigon68]

9. Unfortunately it will soon be 600 then 700, then 800

Sad--- And the Chimp continued to steer the Titanic