3 years on military mom's letter to editors

I woke up from a nightmare this morning, one I've had intermittently for three years.  I am a mother enduring a third deployment of a son to Iraq and feel powerless in the face of this immoral and grave experience.

    I say immoral because, whether this for-profit war was justified or not, it was immoral to send troops to war without proper equipment, armor, or supplies. Three years in, my son lives in a shelled-out building without running water, with no electricity, and dines on one freeze-dried Meal a day. To provide sustenance, I send canned pasta meals, and tuna fish and mayonnaise packets.
   
Another son went into battle three years ago in this for-profit war-of-choice and I devoured CSpan's coverage of the run-up to the war. We went in there under false pretenses. History will decide whether it was honest mistake or intentional.  




Follow the jump for the conclusion to this tome  

The immorality of the Bush administration's actions is clear and pervasive, however. They give back huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans (another war-time first) and force our military forces to live in squalor.
From the very start, this war was conducted "on the cheap" without enough troops. This administration has allowed this war to carry on, as "onesies and twosies" of our finest men and women, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, mothers and fathers are picked off in the name of tax cuts and poor planning and stubborn refusal to suck it up, acknowledge erroneous ways, and beg for help from the international community

•  Tip Jar? Anyone? Meager paltry handouts? n/t

  by Moesse on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 08:11:01 AM PDT

•  I think history has already decided

  I hope your son stays safe and returns home soon.

  by ksh01 on Sun Mar 19, 2006 at 08:44:20 AM PDT