OpEdNews - Page 4 of Article: Once Upon a Time in America

But those in this administration will sacrifice NOTHING, and they do not ask the people, except the soldiers and their families, to sacrifice anything!! But the corporate greed and enabling they are fostering guarantees the common people, including the veterans who fought wars that made many of the too rich, (like Bush, Sr. from the Carlyle Group, richer), will have a lower standard of living. We have already seen this happening to airline employees, and now to GM employees. It is a given that other automobile manufacturers will follow GM 's lead.

Right now the soldiers are paying, but the "heroes walls " the cutesy little news anchors gushed over during the 2003 invasion are gone. The war is old news. When the broadcast media does have to cover what is happening in Iraq, it is almost as if they begrudge the airtime. One soldier wrote that that was what hurt the worst. Seeing ducks caught in a storm drain being covered as news, while news of American casualties in Iraq was relegated to the newswrap that snakes across the bottom of the television screen.

Another soldier on his second tour in Iraq wrote:

"There are battles which need to be fought and battles which serve no good purpose. Afghanistan and Bin Laden lay forgotten as if they were discarded toys left by a spoiled child. Iraq is the new frontier of poor foreign policy and poor planning. Even the soldiers can see it. Why do you think nobody is re-enlisting? They don 't want to fight a losing battle, and to die for an empty promise ... that somehow staying in Iraq makes America safer. We have created a martyr factory here, and we are beginning to wade through the next Vietnam. How wrong do you want to be before you send the troops home " 2000 dead ...How about 10,000? "

BUT ... they are not your kids. They are not G. W. Bush 's kids.

Ike, that good man, would consider them his kids ...

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