Another victim of Bush's war

[WolverineDG]

to get oil.

My cousin's son died yesterday because of a medical condition. :cry: When she called one of his best friends to tell him the news, the kid went ballistic on her. He still won't talk to her. Later, his mother called back & told her that he's gotten so many calls about so many friends from high school dying in Iraq, he just can't handle it anymore. He's extremely angry. He had thought this one friend was "safe," because he couldn't be in the military, and now that friend is gone too.

I guess Bush thinks this kid is just one more item in the "collateral damage" column....poor kid...can you imagine losing so many friends this early in your life? they aren't even 10 years out of high school!

dg

[Lars39]

1. I'm re-reading Tolkien......

"One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its opression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead." :(

[bigtree]

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3. This is sad...

...and also tragic. It reminds me of my experiences back in the early part of the Vietnam War. There were all kinds of reasons given (mostly lies) as to why the U.S. had to be there, but the death toll just kept rising and more and more families and neighbors in numerous communities and towns across the country were directly impacted. In 1968 Johnson stopped the bombing so that diplomats could go back to the tables to talk of peace and cease fires. That was during the RNC where candidate Richard Nixon during his nomination speech read that announcement to the Republican convention delegates and the viewers on nationwide TV and expressed his disappointment and talked about, "Peace with honor". He got elected and resumed the bombing and the war continued for another seven and half years.

"All warfare is based on deception."
- Sun Tzu