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Sixteen to
Nothing
by Patricia
Ernest
Sixteen soldiers killed and
bush still hasn't said word one about the tragedy. Yeah, okay
that's fine. Hey what the hell, we have more soldiers where
those came from.....right? Rumsfeld grabs the microphone and looks
bummed out, expresses a few Hallmark moment words of sympathy, and then
there it is, the word that will negate all his previous faux sentiment,
he says, "but". After you hear that you can just
shut down because you know what's coming next. We know we're
about to hear propaganda bs. We're going to hear about war causing
deaths, deaths are a necessary part of war, and blah blah blah.
Where's the part about this
shouldn't have happened, and we should have been more prepared to
end this war? Yeah, where the hell is that part Mr. Rumsfeld, Mr.
bush, and all you other fine war loving men? Where's your heart?
For a bunch of hypocrites who say they believe in the word of God, you
sure as hell don't follow his instructions very well. This isn't a
parlor game, this is real war with real people being really really
killed. When you get tired of playing you can't just put all the
pieces back in the box and put the box in the cupboard. These
pieces are in caskets and you can't just hide them under your pretend
patriotic ego. You guys started this thing called war and people
have died. It's your responsibility. It's going to stay with
you the rest of your lives. You better start being remorseful and
you had better start it soon. Stop hiding facts and stop telling lies,
it's not fair to those who have died for you.
I'm sure that the families
of all the troops who have been murdered in Iraq are no longer waiting
for those hugs bush told us he would be giving them. Remember when
he said, before the war, that he would be the one hugging the mothers of
the troops who would be killed in this war? Hugging indeed!
He won't even let the mothers see the caskets as they arrive in the US.
He won't even allow that in those caskets are honorable men and women
who died for their country, because he told them to. He says
there is a filter over the news, well he has placed a filter between
death and honor by not allowing the caskets returning from Iraq to
be photographed. No photos, no death, no hugs, no no no.
He can't work hugs into his
busy schedule of raising money.
Sorry mom, you're going to
have to cry alone at the funeral. You see, Mr. bush has other
things on his agenda today.
Sorry dad, you're going to
have to handle this funeral alone. Mr. bush is still real busy speaking to
some handpicked audience, and he's not telling them that your son
is dead, no no no. Because, that would bum everyone out. And
you know that bummed out people just don't write big checks.
Sorry little kids, we
can't show you a picture on tv of daddy in a military hospital. If
people see your daddy in the hospital laying there without his
legs, people will be upset and they might even realize that war is hell.
Now that wouldn't be good publicity for this war, would it?
Sorry young mother, you're
on your own now to raise the kids. I'm sure Mr. bush would want
you to know that, if he could have raised that extra two million dollars
before your husband's ill timed murder in Iraq, he might have had time
to give you a condolence call. But hey, what can we tell you?
It takes bribes, I mean money to run campaigns, and that's of the utmost
concern to Mr. bush right now. You do understand don't you?
Sorry men and women in the
military hospitals, Mr. bush doesn't have time to come and visit with
you. He prefers not to be reminded that you suffered your
injuries, because he gave false information in order to send you to
Iraq. He just likes the part about new schools for Iraqi children,
that's his favorite part, it makes him feel all squishy and warm inside.
Looking at you is too bummy for him. Sorry!
Sixteen deaths in one
day One death a day for sixteen days. Are we going
to wait for them all to die? How concerned is the whitehouse about
any of these deaths? Do they really feel anything even close to
remorse? What do they say? What do they do? They say
nothing and they do nothing. Sunday the score from
this whitehouse was sixteen deaths to zero remorse.
The score was sixteen to nothing, but no one won and a whole lot was
lost.
I am a mom to Murphy (my precious pup) and Fred
(my occasionally precious cat).
I share my life, my laughter, my world and
all of my love with my husband and have for 16 years.
I would describe myself as a very sentimental and
sensitive person who is forever willing to share my point of view
whether or not it has been requested of me. This
article is copyright by Patricia Ernest, originally published by
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