Reply #19: That is not likely possible in many, many cases [View All]

And, as we have pointed out before, in many threads over many days, there is nothing new about this. Even the grieving father who started the outcry has been on TV admitting that he has found out it is SOP and has been for decades.

The whole issue is sad, but it is really a displacement of emotions such as denial, anger and all the other steps of the grieving process. A parent loses an offspring. Perhaps supportive of the invasion in the beginning and/or even a supporter of bush, the loss creates a schism; need to believe the war was right and nobel in order to make the loss have meaning and the deep gut knowledge that the war was not necessary, but a war of choice based on lies. To square those two things and find a vent for anger, people can project a lot of raw emotion on an issue which is not the root of what they are feeling.

It is not the first time people have projected their rage onto something they think they can change/control in some way, rather than break through the delusions which make life more comfortable. It is hard to conclude the country is led by evil people and so much more comfortable to hopefully cling to the notion that leaders are kind fathers who will love and protect us.

So much less threatening to focus uneasiness and anger at some side issue when the truth would destroy comfortable illusion. It happens to most of us and for much less serious issues.

The problem is the criminal invasion, the loss of life, the horrible things done by average people under orders of criminal leaders. It creates huge clefts in some peoples' lives when they try to avoid acknowledging the fact that their loved ones served/died in a cause which was not noble. Their rage will eat them until they can face the real cause down.

I have the utmost sympathy for these people. Truth is a very bitter pill and many just cannot swallow it.

The dishonor done to these fallen soldiers is not the manner in which they must be brought to the area where they will be buried. The dishonor is that their lives were thrown away by criminals America calls leaders and thrown away for profit.

There is something to rage against.

Let the fallen come home in peace. Work on preventing more losses for nothing but the profits of a few. Honor them by facing reality and helping those who have trouble seeing truth for their pain.

Honor them by saving their brothers and sisters from the same pointless fate.