I feel like my blog entries lately have been very brief, but when faced with eloquence like the following, what more can I really add but a quiet "Amen" and "I’m so sorry for your loss"?
For those of you who still trust the Bush administration — and your percentage diminishes every day — let me tell you that my nephew Chase Johnson Comley did not die to preserve your freedoms. He was not presented flowers by grateful Iraqis, welcoming him as their liberator.
More borrowed eloquence on the flip.
He died fighting a senseless war for oil and contracts, ensuring the increased wealth of President Bush and his administration’s friends.
He died long after Bush, in his testosterone-charged, theatrical, soldier-for-a-day role, announced on an aircraft carrier beneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner that major combat was over.
He died in a country erupting into civil war and turned into a hellhole by Bush, a place where democracy has no chance of prevailing, a country that will become a theocracy like Saudi Arabia.
Have we won the hearts and the minds of the Iraqi people? Apparently not.
Condolences to the Comleys, and the Sheehans, and the Zapalas, and the Mitchells and who knows how many grieving Iraqi families…
These are the stories the Chimperial Court has been trying to silence. Time for that to end.
Support the troops. Tell the truth. Bring them home.
Cross posted to We Are the Resistance.
