Keith Obermann: "Now we are sending them(US troops) to their deaths for your ego"

Our policy in Iraq has been criticized for being indescribable, for being inscrutable, for being ineffable.

But it is all too easily understood now.

First we sent Americans to their deaths for your lie, Mr. Bush.

Now we are sending them to their deaths for your ego.

If what is reported is true -- if your decision is made and the "sacrifice" is ordered -- take a page instead from the man at whose funeral you so eloquently spoke this morning -- Gerald Ford:

Put pragmatism and the healing of a nation ahead of some kind of misguided vision

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16442767/

Followng the lead of Keith Obermann, Robert Parham, Executive Director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, has weighed in firmly against the pretense of using the term "sacrifice" to describe a proposed "surge" of troops in Iraq. Here's a quote from Parham:


We need to oppose now and loudly Bush's surge and disingenuous call for sacrifice.

While we need the church to serve as our society's moral surge protector with clear statements by church leaders against the war, we also need individual Christians to reframe the debate.

When the president and his pro-war Neoconservatives rationalize the troop surge, think "human sacrifice." Every time you hear surge, think human sacrifice. Every time you hear some pro-war Christian advocate the surge, talk about the surge as human sacrifice. At every opportunity, link surge and human sacrifice.

Let's speak up against human sacrifice.

http://mainstreambaptist.blogspot.com/2007/01/parham-weighs-in-against-human.html

But "Now" we are sending troops to kill and die purely for Bush's ego? What is this "now" thing? That's what it's been all along.