Last night before I went to sleep, I read the headline "US Paid Families $2500 for each civilian killed in Haditha."
Today I woke to "Men cry outside a hospital morgue after their brother was killed when gunmen dragged 24 teenage students from vehicles and shot them dead."
Despite blaming insurgents for the killings in Haditha, the U.S. military gave the Haditha familes $2,500 for each person killed in the incident about a month later.
A lawyer representing those families asks a haunting question; He noted that Libya's government paid millions of dollars in compensation to the families of the Lockerbie airline bombing victims. "Is American blood worth more than Iraqi blood?
A fair question. Oh yes, we hold our children near and dear. So dear that many of our fellow citizens practically drive in armored tanks right here in the USA...lest their little darlings get in a fender bender then they will be safe. Never connecting the dots between their love of SUV and the price of oil or a war staged to obtain that oil. And if that child were to perish through an accident of an act of criminal negligence would they settle for the paltry insulting sum of $2500? Try 25 million.
I used to believe that republicans were simply Americans of a different stripe. That they looked at the glass differently than I do. That we had more in common than we had differences. But the reign of W has left me disgusted with anyone who calls themselves a republican or conservative. Now my blood boils when I meet a 29 percenter......they are depraved, without conscience, seemingly concerned only with the possession of money and power.
They say they support the troops, they say they care about life, they ask what about the children? Yes, what about the Iraqi children? It seems that it's just fine with them to kill other people's children to protect our own.
Now, with the help of the extremist born again Christian evangelicals, they are trying to turn the nation's attention back to the issue of gay marriage. These philandering hypocrites are trying to divide us further than we have become in six long years by ignoring the real problems and focusing on imaginary ones.
It's way past time that Christians everywhere reject this twisted version of Christianity and demand changes, answers, accountability. It's time to reclaim the soul of America the beautiful, America the brave, America the free.