How Hard This War is on the Family of the Servicepeople as well

[illinoisprogressive]

I was reading an article about Sen. Obama campaigning in the smaller towns of Iowa. At the end it has an encounter with a woman who son was lost in Iraq.
Many people come up to the candidates to talk about their family in Iraq or the ones who are killed there and it must be really terrible.
We talk about the loss to the country and our treasury. But, the families have to live on and knowing this war was a lie. This war was for Bush's ego and nothing more. and Cheney's paranoia.
They have to live with that. The fallout of this war with the terrible suffering of the Iraqis, the middle east now a powder keg, the tragic deaths of youth, and the families who carry the memories of loveones sacrificed for what...
The Great American Tragedy...

Things have cooled off enough to permit Mr. Obama, dressed in his signature open-collared white shirt and loose-hanging black sports coat, to linger until almost the last person is gone. This more casual setting has revealed Mr. Obama to be a tactile campaigner; his bony hand grabbing elbows and hands, his long arms thrown over shoulders, drawing voters close in conversation.

And it allowed for moments like one that took place at the V.F.W. Hall in Dakota City, after almost everyone had gone. Mr. Obama was approached by a woman, her eyes wet. She spoke into his ear and began to weep, collapsing into his embrace. They stood like that for a full minute, Mr. Obama looking ashen, before she pulled away. She began crying again, Mr. Obama pulled her in for another embrace.

The woman left declining to give her name or recount their conversation. Mr. Obama said she told him what had happened to her 20-year-old son, who was serving in Iraq.

“Her son died,” he said. He paused. “What can you say? This happens to me every single place I go.”

The next day, at the rally here, Mr. Obama described the encounter for the crowd. The woman, he said, had asked if her son’s death was the result of a mistake by the government. “And I told her the service of our young men and women — the duty they show this country — that’s never a mistake,” he said.

He paused carefully as he reflected on that encounter. “It reminds you why you get into politics,” he said. “It reminds you that this isn’t a game.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/us/politics/08obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Also, I wish we would find the real reason for this madness soon. Why

There are many theories as to why we went to war but, only Bush and Cheney know the real reason and maybe Rove.
I want not just theory but, the real reason we went to war from them.

[will_in_chicago]

2. Why we need investigations

Illinoisprogressive, I think that we need to have investigations into the war. We are still waiting for the results of an investigation into the use of intelligence. However, an investigation into the causes of the war would likely require Bush and Cheney to be under oath before Congress. They will resist this in all ways possible.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. I honestly do not think we will ever find the real reason.

[will_in_chicago]

4. At least there will be some theories by historians and journalists

It may well be a mystery and a subject for historical debate. However, I think we will see a consensus emerge as historians, journalists, political scientists, and others study the issue. I think a lot of it had to do with the agenda of the Project for A New American Century, oil, and profits.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi will_in_chicago!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[will_in_chicago]

6. Thanks and some more thoughts

First, thanks for the welcome.

I think that we will have the truth, or a close approximation of it in the long run. We will always have some historical mysteries but we can state many things with a fair amount of certainty. My hope is that we will start having people leak information as the Bush administration weakens. We have already seen the release of the Downing Street Memos, so more information is forthcoming.