I read the post about the chopper that went down and followed the link to the story. There was another photo on the webpage that made me grieve yet again...
A Georgie Bush's Folly Photo...
GIs who trust Chickenhawk Georgie
I saw a lot of these kinds of photos in the Vietnam era... but this is nothing like Vietnam, right?
For me, Iraq is worse than Vietnam...
Americans should know better for God's sake, we have been through this before. The lies, the appeals to patriotism, the coffins (now euphimistically called 'Transfer Tubes').
The sick, maimed and broken spirited soldiers of Vietnam haunt me still. And now there is a new torment, a new stream of bodies, a new ward full of maimed soldiers, new pictures of funeral services. This time it is Iraq, but the soldiers are just as dead, maimed, and broken-spirited.
We should know better...
And more of Georgie Bush's betters are dead today, because we haven't put a stop to Georgie's Folly...