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"To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.?"
read the rest here.
malaise
(268,863 posts)Bush and Cheney every fugging day of the week.
packman
(16,296 posts)to everyone of those Neocon chicken hawks, "Let's go to war again" bastards that are beating the drums of war again and pounded them the first time.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)who will make the decision to relight the fire?
samsingh
(17,594 posts)3catwoman3
(23,968 posts)...by and large. lacks the emotional depth to be touched by his poignant words. Darth Cheney would just smirk and shrug it off.
samsingh
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ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)ever read. And the whole thing may well happen again as this man dies. Thanks for posting this letter. I am sending it all my Vietnam friends I keep in contact with. I have heard from many of them regarding Obama's intention to light the spark anew while concurrently saying he will not. Been there, done that.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)(((Tomas)))
hue
(4,949 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)In spite of our bought-off, repuke loving media.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)There is a documentary about him, Body of War. Tomas Young is fortunately still alive and outspoken about the Iraq War.
The DVD can be bought here: http://www.docurama.com/docurama/body-of-war/
Bless him for speaking out for having the courage to go on with life.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thanks for the info!!
And he's still alive? That's wonderful! We need smart people like him.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)yes, he's still alive, which is really good news.
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)and for all those who have suffered because of the selfishness and folly of GWB and his cohorts. Shame of them. I hope they burn in hell.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)If we don't make them pay. They never will. IMHOOC.
samsingh
(17,594 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)and just read it again. The true, human cost of a war based on lies and greed. I am sad for this individual and I see he's still alive. I applaud his courage in describing in excruciating detail what it is like as a paraplegic. I applaud his letter and as a fellow vet, I salute you. I pray you find peace for your mind, soul and body. God! I despise these RW bastards that have caused and continue to cause so much pain.
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LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)he is the Pharaoh, and the members of the military are just so many slaves as he builds pyramids to himself. They are less than the dust under his sandals.
And Dim Son is too stupid to notice.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So?
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)We here at DU knew it was wrong from day one. We could see through the lies and the fear mongering. I thought that Mr. Obama would have the courage and the strength to prosecute these supreme global wide transgressors and plunderers, who committed these most heinous war crimes. Crimes not unlike the Nazi leaders were rightfully hanged for over the years. WE, Tortured, WE, Mass Murdered, WE, lied our way into Iraq like Hitler lied his way into Poland and the USSR. WE did this because the US Supreme Court on a 5 to 4 vote elected a "president" and in so doing, quashed the will of the people of the United States of America.
Now dick Cheney is free to go on TV and attack the commander in chief in a time of war in Afghanistan and a possible hostile takeover of the Ukraine and a boiling cauldron in Iraq and Syria. If we hadn't blown three trillion in an elective war in Iraq, maybe Obama could do a little more for the people in other countries where mass murder is now in progress and for the suffering here in our own little world.
I fail to see anything at all, godly about the "fruits" of the GOP's labors. I do see a great abundance of false prophets, hypocrites and those who would wield the Bible and all the Christian trappings for a sword/stage prop, with which to fool, deceive and divide the American people, in order to go right on plundering and murdering and sending more of our children off to the slaughter.
At Nuremburg the war criminals were tried for these crimes: crimes against peace; war crimes; or crimes against humanity. Read More...
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nuremberg.htm
catbyte
(34,360 posts)WTF is the matter with baggers? It's like they're from a different planet. An awful, dark, disturbing, disgusting, greedy, mean, selfish, bigoted planet.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Yeah, you read here...
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)If they did, none would ever read it.
But we should try to get every other American to read it.