Cindy, I am so moved by your voice, even on internet text.
Thank you for your nonviolent warrior spirit, which you have taken into your heart with your grief over your son’s death.
This war is immoral. Our youth are being sacrified for what - our oil-based lifestyle? Honor? The shame our leaders would feel in admitting they were wrong? When we at home are told we should be grateful to our leaders for having "taken the war to the terrorists" instead of having them over here enrages me. Our leaders were warned about the terrorists’ threats and those who started this war did little about those threats before 9/11! It’s like saying our youth must be thrown abroad as cannon fodder, and foreign cities must be destroyed, so that Americans may continue to live in comfort and security, turning our eyes away even from the coffins, mental breakdowns, and missing limbs that mark our warriors’ sacrifices (the recent publication of Pentagon’s photos - with our soldiers’ faces BLACKED OUT! - as if they were doing something of which they need to be ashamed, or terrified for their lives! — notwithstanding.) And never seeing the sacrifices that Iraqi families, with hopes and dreams like our own, simply trying to survive their leaders’ intrigues, are forced to make by the deadly math of our military’s Shock, Awe and occuption.
Thank you for speaking out for these victims of war as if they, like Casey, were your own children.
How Howard Dean can approve this war — or shrug in its face as if he were impotent when he is the leader of the only opposition party with enough government leverage to withdraw the governed’s consent from its continuation — can only be explained by complicity.
Your voice is powerful enough to break through; I hope he’ll listen, as doctors are trained to do. And, hearing you describe the symptoms of collective grief, perhaps he’ll realize he’s prescribed wrongly, and look instead for the real cure: end the occupation, apolgize, and pay reparations - including a fund to help the international community work with Iraqis to establish a Truth and Reconcialition Commission (starting with the trial of their leader in which the errors of his regime — AND OURS WHILE WE SUPPORTED HIM — will instruct the world in the fruitless errors of greed, revenge and violent solutions to conflict.)
Cindy, I am so moved by your voice, even on internet text.
Thank you for your nonviolent warrior spirit, which you have taken into your heart with your grief over your son’s death.
This war is immoral. Our youth are being sacrified for what - our oil-based lifestyle? Honor? The shame our leaders would feel in admitting they were wrong? When we at home are told we should be grateful to our leaders for having "taken the war to the terrorists" instead of having them over here enrages me. Our leaders were warned about the terrorists’ threats and those who started this war did little about those threats before 9/11! It’s like saying our youth must be thrown abroad as cannon fodder, and foreign cities must be destroyed, so that Americans may continue to live in comfort and security, turning our eyes away even from the coffins, mental breakdowns, and missing limbs that mark our warriors’ sacrifices (the recent publication of Pentagon’s photos - with our soldiers’ faces BLACKED OUT! - as if they were doing something of which they need to be ashamed, or terrified for their lives! — notwithstanding.) And never seeing the sacrifices that Iraqi families, with hopes and dreams like our own, simply trying to survive their leaders’ intrigues, are forced to make by the deadly math of our military’s Shock, Awe and occuption.
Thank you for speaking out for these victims of war as if they, like Casey, were your own children.
How Howard Dean can approve this war — or shrug in its face as if he were impotent when he is the leader of the only opposition party with enough government leverage to withdraw the governed’s consent from its continuation — can only be explained by complicity.
Your voice is powerful enough to break through; I hope he’ll listen, as doctors are trained to do. And, hearing you describe the symptoms of collective grief, perhaps he’ll realize he’s prescribed wrongly, and look instead for the real cure: end the occupation, apolgize, and pay reparations - including a fund to help the international community work with Iraqis to establish a Truth and Reconcialition Commission (starting with the trial of their leader in which the errors of his regime — AND OURS WHILE WE SUPPORTED HIM — will instruct the world in the fruitless errors of greed, revenge and violent solutions to conflict.)