"Proudly, this new congress voted to bring an end to the war in Iraq. It took one big giant step in that direction, it voted not to give a blank check to an open-ended commitment to a war without end to the President of the United States and yes, to begin the end of the war and deployment of our troops." ~speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi
Here, Pelosi is telling us no more endless Bush war on Iraq. But in a strong gesture of weakness, she kindly extended the war's funding until the end of next August which means--using a very conservative figure of 60 US soldiers getting killed/mo. for the next 17 mos., over 1,000 more will die for nothing in this version of the democratic end to the war.
Of course, Bush will veto whatever the final bill will look like when the senate finishes with it, meaning an endless number of US troops will be sacrificed needlessly. The number of killed by Bush's policy could be far greater, making me so very, very thankful we have a courageous opposition party that doesn't believe in sacrificing more than a 1,000 or so more.
And while I'm being thankful, I'm also thankful that I won't be one of the last 1,000 (or more) killed in Iraq when that number could be a much, much smaller number if we had a true representative government.
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It was very nice of them to limit it to 1,000. I wonder how many limbs will be blown off in that amount of time.
Good question pt. Latest war victim from the local fort here looks like he'll make it home alive (unlike the four from the preceding week who will all be catching a flight in one of those big ol' C-47 cargo bays, ETA after dark).
But of this latest one, out of HS less than a year, who loved to play basketball, his mother said: "I never thought this could happen to my son. It never even crossed my mind," as he returns to her a double amputee (above the knees).
Looks like we're in for a whole new generation of wheelchair basketball leagues. And a distraught mother has experienced, firsthand, the stretching of her imagination to include something that had never crossed her mind.
we haven't even touched the surface with the emotional damage that is coming back from this war...violent crime bad now? just wait...
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