And 4,200 American soldiers and marines died for this? At least 30,000 American soldiers and marines have been savagely mutilated for this? The United States has gone into debt perhaps as much as $3 TRILLION for this? Perhaps a couple hundred thousand Iraqi civilians have died, more than a million seriously permanently wounded, and a few million have been forced to flee the country, their country, the land of their birth . . . for this?
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And you know someone who voted for George Bush, you know someone who yet claims to apologetically support this president, and you know someone who claims to support John McCain, the aspirant to the presidency of your country, of my country, of our dear and beloved country, and you have not told this person he or she is “dead to you”? And why, in the name of all on earth and heaven that is decent and good and just have you not?
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Precisely how many gondolas of that hog slop are you willing to wallow in before you stand up, reclaim your pride in yourself and assert your first-order right to at least a teaspoon of personal dignity?
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Forty-two hundred American military lives, people who once were vibrant, sentient human beings, now no more . . . just so that Mr. Bush’s best friends could secure access to the black goo that lubricates their opulence. WOW! If a “relationship” trumps basic human decency principles . . .
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— Ed Tubbs
Oakland, CA
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