From a diary posted @ My Left Wing months ago.
This diary is inspired by this DKos diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Fellow Kossacks:
My father was career USA Navy. In time, he was able to get stationed at Alameda Naval Air Station next door to Oakland, where I was born.
My generation played recklessly, carelessly, and violently, and because of that, I had occasion to visit the emergency rooms at Oak Knoll Naval hospital in Oakland.
To be honest, my suffering parents occupied the Oak Knoll hospital emergency rooms far too much- But it was their choice to have 4 children- as luck would have it, it was 4 crazy, violent sons...
This was during the Vietnam war, when Oak Knoll was the premier military orthopedic hospital.
Oak Knoll was the primary hospital for amputees returning from the Vietnam war.
As a kid with a mere skull fracture, I was horrified by the broken and incomplete bodies getting care at Oak Knoll.
And to a man, every single maimed victim lied to me, and told me that they were OK in order to make me feel better.
These were mostly amputees missing too many arms and legs.
But I must stress that the "men" who lied to both me and themselves were in fact mere kids of 18-22 years by rational adult standards.
Those young, destroyed, incomplete bodied and tortured heroes felt that easing the mind of a child was far more important than their own destructive injuries.
The concept of "hero" was burned into my soul at that time.
There is no question whatsoever that bush's war victims are doing the same. The only difference now is that young women are now also suffering the same horrific destruction of their bodies that only men suffered in Vietnam.
Tammy Duckworth is a good example of the fact that unlike Vietnam, under bush's watch, women are being maimed and killed.
Only NOW, USA citizens are so utterly insulated from reality, the bush-PNAC-israeli/Iraq war victims no longer exist.
USA citizens are forbidden to see the dead patriots, and are forbidden to see the mangled and incomplete patriots who fought in Iraq for a supreme lie.
I saw the results of war firsthand.
And I learned when I was just 10 years old that war is an evil far too terrible for use unless absolutely necessary.
Traitors in the USA who promote war for any reason whatsoever in defiance to the USA constitution need to be exposed as the traitors they are.
Let's start with the PNAC authors.