An 18 month timetable discussion from General Casey in Iraq must be very disturbing to the families that sacrificed their loved ones in the last 18 months and to see virtually none of the so called progress in Iraq that our "War President" has said is occurring. The only thing that that stay the course did for America was cost us the lives of 1,213 service men and women in a useless and terrible war. Why do I point out Virginia? Follow after the fold...
It is because this is the price that Virginia has paid in blood while George Allen stayed the course with the Idiot War Monger in Chief. Who are the scarificed from Virginia? Here they are... I give you you their names to honor their sacrifice because to find meaning in the debacle of Iraq is hopeless. Help me honor their memory.
Name of the Fallen Date of Death
Chavis, Leebenard E. 14-Oct-06
Adcock, Shane T. 11-Oct-06
Asbury, Brandon S. 7-Oct-06
Andino Jr., Edwin Anthony 3-Sep-06
Wolfe, Colin Joseph 30-Aug-06
Shannon L. Squires 28-Aug-06
Fargo, Adam J. 22-Jul-06
Anderson, Andy D. 6-Jun-06
Mahaffee, Shane 14-May-06
Letendre, Brian S. 3-May-06
Ehle, Jeremy W. 2-Apr-06
Martone, Justin R. 7-Mar-06
Garcia Villareal, Felipe J. 12-Feb-06
Phillips, Steven L. 7-Feb-06
Gerena, Orville 6-Feb-06
Miles, Sean H. 24-Jan-06
Brown, Kyle W. 7-Jan-06
Lundstrom, Brett L. 7-Jan-06
Petty, Christopher P. 5-Jan-06
Taha, Ayman A. 30-Dec-05
Lutz II, George Anthony "Tony" 29-Dec-05
Kubasak, Jared William 12-Dec-05
Casica, Kenith 10-Dec-05
McGlothin, Donald R. 16-Nov-05
Wren, Thomas A. 5-Nov-05
Fegler, Jason A. 4-Nov-05
Martino, Michael D. 2-Nov-05
Jutras, Dillon M. 28-Oct-05
Bubb, Daniel Scott R. 17-Oct-05
Scheuerman, Jason D. 30-Jul-05
Downs, William 30-May-05
Grez, Jourdan L. 11-May-05
This is the "butcher's bill" for just the last 18 months in Iraq for the State of Virginia. This is the price paid that must be held accoutable for George Allen's support of the failed and misguided neo-con agenda. It is a fraud paid in American blood and how much more must now be bled for the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Casey "timetable"?
It is outrageous in the extreme that having stayed the course for a period greater than World War II that our dim witted and self serving leaders now realize that their is a cost to this war - a political cost. And while true they still don't get it because the cost has been the loss of American soldiers and nearly countless Iraqi citizens. But our leaders felt none of this UNTIL there arose the political cost in this midterm election.
Virginia must not reward and cannot return the complicit in this travesty. They must deny George Allen re-election in favor of Jim Webb. Jim Webb has tasted the bitterness of war and I do not believe that he will permit this senseless sacrifice to continue for another 18 gawd awful months. Defeat Maccaca George and elect Webb. He will help end it for the honor of the 32 sacrified in the last 18 months - the 82 Virginians offered since the invasion and 2,804 total American soldiers dead in Iraq as of today. Elect Jim Webb so that we can spare as many American soldiers as possible at not lose them in greater numbers of casualties for the future for no apparent noble cause.