It's a WAR. People die. GET OVER IT.

To those who speak those words--"get over it"--I say this:

Is that what you're going to tell the mothers of our soldiers?

That they should have expected their CHILD to die--and for what? A disaster?

Call me a bleeding heart, why don't you?

Call me a bleeding heart--I am proud to have a concious. I am proud that I have the BALLS to walk up to a woman who lost her child to your president's war and tell her, "I am sorry--I wish this never happened."

And if you call me a bleeding heart for that, then it is you, not I, the "bleeding heart liberal," who hates this country. If you cannot respect the pain that is a consequence of war, from Baghdad to Topeka, then you do not love this country. If you cannot stand up for what is right--and it is not waging an ungodly, un-Christian war on the basis of whim--then you do not love this country. And as I love this country, so I am proud to call myself a "bleeding heart liberal."

War IS terror. You cannot fight terror by waging a vengeful war. No God of Christ would ever vindicate such a cause.

Never should war be waged on a whim, or a feeling, or because we "thought" something was a threat. Are you willing to die in Iraq? Would you sacrifice YOUR CHILD for the war in Iraq?

Take Bush's legacy of two wars in which thousands of Americans and Muslims have died, take his legacy of skyrocketing abortions, take his legacy of failed health care--take his LEGACY OF DEATH and get OUT of MY country!

(I'm done venting)

•  I think you meant to write...

  ...Is that WHAT you're going to tell the mothers of our soldiers?

  instead of

  Is that you're going to tell the mothers of our soldiers?

  by kaus on Thu Jan 20, 2005 at 10:50:30 PM PDT

  •  Thanks.

    I've clarified it now.

    by Covin on Thu Jan 20, 2005 at 10:54:06 PM PDT

•  Have you seem this?

  This video by hategun.com pretty much sums it up.

  by iambaytor on Thu Jan 20, 2005 at 10:57:02 PM PDT

  •  Man that was powerful!

    Do these things ever get seen by the congressmen and senators? By media and wingnuts? How can we get people to watch this?

    "Time is for careful people, not passionate ones"

    by roseeriter on Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 06:32:23 AM PDT

    •  Word of mouth

      I guess that's the best way, send it like a chain letter. I actually got the link off Michael Moore's website a while back, so I'm sure a lot of people have seen it. Though of course that would probably be like preaching to the choir.

      by iambaytor on Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 11:07:33 PM PDT

•  Get over it?

  Get over it? I Am Not A Lawyer, but there's no statute of limitations on war crimes, I believe.

  by bradspangler on Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 01:19:50 AM PDT

•  I still say...

  to send someone's child to his/her death, you should have one of your own go. We should all be demanding that Jenna and Bar head over to Fallujah instead of Jenna tormenting DC kids.

  by gladkov on Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 04:59:25 AM PDT