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wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:59 AM Jun 2014

Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American

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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.?"
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Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American (Original Post) wildbilln864 Jun 2014 OP
More importantly people should send it to the media and to malaise Jun 2014 #1
Should be read packman Jun 2014 #2
How about we focus a little on the determinant party ballyhoo Jun 2014 #8
kick samsingh Jun 2014 #3
Unfortunately, his target audience... 3catwoman3 Jun 2014 #4
i hope more people read it samsingh Jun 2014 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Jun 2014 #6
One of the best letters I have ballyhoo Jun 2014 #7
Monday morning kick! n/t wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #9
And another later Monday morning kick. Really great read... riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #10
Shared on FB! K&R for exposure of truth!!! Thanks for writing this Tomas!! hue Jun 2014 #11
this really needs to go viral. it needs to get out there, BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #12
It did go viral over a year ago when it was written. ohheckyeah Jun 2014 #18
oh!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #19
You're welcome.... ohheckyeah Jun 2014 #21
There are no words that I can think of to express my sorry for this man, Paper Roses Jun 2014 #13
if only there was one for them to burn in. wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #15
kick samsingh Jun 2014 #14
I read this once before heaven05 Jun 2014 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author heaven05 Jun 2014 #17
Unfortunately, DICK Cheney gives less than a fuck LondonReign2 Jun 2014 #20
I believe Mr. Cheney's response, in full, would be: gratuitous Jun 2014 #22
Touched my heart, to the very core. Hubert Flottz Jun 2014 #23
Most of the comments on that site are as disgusting & despicable as Bush/Cheney/etc. catbyte Jun 2014 #24
K&R for every lurking freak who followed the lies of Bush and Cheney MrMickeysMom Jun 2014 #25
Dick Cheney, George Bush or any of the other war criminals from that regime will never see this liberal N proud Jun 2014 #26
indeed! n/t wildbilln864 Jun 2014 #27

malaise

(268,863 posts)
1. More importantly people should send it to the media and to
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:03 PM
Jun 2014

Bush and Cheney every fugging day of the week.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Should be read
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 12:13 PM
Jun 2014

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)
8. How about we focus a little on the determinant party
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 02:39 PM
Jun 2014

who will make the decision to relight the fire?

3catwoman3

(23,968 posts)
4. Unfortunately, his target audience...
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 01:39 PM
Jun 2014

...by and large. lacks the emotional depth to be touched by his poignant words. Darth Cheney would just smirk and shrug it off.

Response to wildbilln864 (Original post)

 

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)
7. One of the best letters I have
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 02:36 PM
Jun 2014

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.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
18. It did go viral over a year ago when it was written.
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:20 PM
Jun 2014

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.

Paper Roses

(7,473 posts)
13. There are no words that I can think of to express my sorry for this man,
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 02:04 PM
Jun 2014

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.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
16. I read this once before
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:00 PM
Jun 2014

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)
20. Unfortunately, DICK Cheney gives less than a fuck
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 05:33 PM
Jun 2014

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.

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
23. Touched my heart, to the very core.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:41 AM
Jun 2014

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)
24. Most of the comments on that site are as disgusting & despicable as Bush/Cheney/etc.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:02 PM
Jun 2014

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.

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
26. Dick Cheney, George Bush or any of the other war criminals from that regime will never see this
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:30 AM
Jun 2014

If they did, none would ever read it.

But we should try to get every other American to read it.

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