From Truth About Iraqis
But the US president is not out there with the troops defending Iraq's virtue and sovereignty, is he?No.
Valiant remarks from behind the protective shield of a soapbox pulpit while ...
Fourteen US soldiers and Marines were killed in Iraq today.
That's the largest number of US fatalities since the IED attack in August, which also claimed 14 US military lives.
More than a dozen US military personnel were injured in the attacks today.
Maybe, after the speech about staying on in Iraq till victory and the White House's attack on Democrats who criticize the war as being irresponsible, Bush should show some spine and visit the mothers of those killed today.
I recently read a post by Riverbend saying she felt sorry for the US soldiers in Iraq.
Well, I don't. I really don't. Reap what you sow, gringo. Fire on Iraqi civilians and this is what you get.
Allow Iranians to run torture camps in Iraq and this is what you get.
Displace tens of thousands of Iraqis into tent cities and this is what you get.
Debilitate an entire society and this is what you get.
Missing from the headlines this week is the story of an Iraqi six-year-old who was killed in Falluja by US forces. His family say they have the shell casing which proves it was US military who killed him.
Or the dozens of Iraqis who are winding up dead on street corners and in desert ditches.
Having said all this, I have to express a certain compassion for the mothers of these soldiers. I keep replaying in my mind the mother of that Michigan soldier who was killed in Iraq as portrayed in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911.
In DC, she walks towards the Capitol, crying about her son, until she has been so weakened by her pain, that she feels she cannot walk any further and hold her hands to her knees.
It was gut-wrenching. You just can't but feel with this woman.
And we keep reading stories in US and UK press about mothers and fathers who are distraught when they hear of their children's needless sacrifice in Iraq.
Yes. It was needless. There is no defense of democracy in the Iraq war. It is not part of the war on terror.
Ann Coulter, maybe it is time you serve in Iraq. Your long blonde locks will be a hit with the shroog.
posted by Truth_about_Iraqis at 1:10 PM
