News broke on Tuesday that a Lubbock family had lost it's second son to war. A man went from being the proud father of two, to the father of none over the past years. It's hard to imagine how dramatically life-changing that is and how you could ever recover. We've marginalized this war from the beginning. We were given so many reasons that turned out to be lies, so many excuses that have dumbed it down into a very costly war that will have no victory.
We'll never get out of Iraq in one piece in any semblance of a victory. Iraq is in chaos, much worse a place than before we stepped in. The Administration tries to buy good publicity about perceived gains in Iraq, but it's easy to see through their excuses. Iraq is not better and America is not safer. All the reasons to avoid this can be seen on Roy Velez's face.
I just hope that Americans will wake up someday...
Comments
weird that we posted about the same thing again...
Posted by: whitney at July 27, 2006 01:08 PM
regan -
i have to agree. back in the days when i had a blog, i posted my thoughts on going to war with iraq. at the time, i was pro-war because of the atrocities that saddam hussein was committing on his own people and the "threat" that it posed us (i fell for that lie too). i am happy that hussein is out of power, but we haven't given the iraqi people any reason to think they are better off now.
we've seen the administration lie time and time again about reasons, results, and rationales for the war, but none of them truly add up. if they had a legitimate - and consistent - reason for being in iraq, i would still support it. but the fact is that they - and no one else - have made it impossible to understand what our "mission" is. "freedom" is too vague a concept, but bush knows that the generic idea of freedom is enough for most patriotic americans.
it's as if we agreed to the plan thinking that we knew where it would lead, considering what we were told.
give a president an inch...
Posted by: kyle at July 28, 2006 12:23 PM
My cousin's over there. One of the things he said is different is the high number of new schools opening. You can't hate it all.
Posted by: James at July 28, 2006 09:58 PM