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"Operation Death Watch" Classified - SECRET!
November 2003
Here
are the men and women from the Armed Forces of the United States who died
in Afghanistan and Iraq. The President says there are perhaps hundreds,
some say the number is in the thousands – we may never know the actual
number of those killed, because everything is secret these days.
We do know that when these Americans were alive, they were good enough to
serve as props for presidential tantrums with the drums of war - while
Bush pushed his national delusion into unilateral actions, without any
justification that has withstood the after-action critiques.
What is less clear is why the president is now afraid of the reality of these
men and women; many that served with distinction when they found
themselves in harm’s way? All were sent to their deaths by this
president, for his purposes – and at his command.
Why
in their family’s time of grief it might be asked - is it - that these
men and women do not merit even a formal notice, from the man who sent
them out to die? Is it for the same reason that he refuses to visit the
sick and wounded?
The
President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United
States of America is afraid of those he has killed, so afraid that he has
classified the movements of their coffins, and the ceremonies that
surround their burials. Publicity is denied to those who have paid with
their lives for this man's folly.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17079
Where’s
that “Bring em’ on,” cowboy: Bush-the-fearless? Is he now afraid of
what he has wrought because an election is now upon the horizon?
Maybe it’s because none of this has ever been real for a man who is
still Absent Without Leave (AWOL), from the Air National Guard, during the
Viet Nam War? This is a mortal man who seems to have no idea of the true
costs of his words or of his actions. But he especially seems to lack any
real knowledge, of the true value of any life, anywhere--other than his
own.
Here’s
a man who has received half a million dollars in campaign funds from those
who got the no-bid contracts in these wars – and as yet there has been
no charge of any conflict-of-interest raised, about his role in all of
that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/politics/31CONT.html?pagewanted=print&position
It
would seem to be unseemly for a U.S. president to personally profit from
wars that he starts. Especially when those who die, were sent to what
occasioned their deaths, in service to his purposes, and not necessarily
to those of the nation.
If
that sounds harsh, consider: Everything about these wars has been kept
SECRET from the public, and for the most part from Congress: Including the
events and actions of this government before, during, and after 911. That
event happened more than two years ago. Those who have nothing to hide
would have held a sober and thorough investigation almost immediately –
this president chose not to. Both Bush and his number two are still
stonewalling the Congress and the people, about everything related both to
the wars, and to the tragedy of 911.
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df10312003.html
Now
he refuses to allow public recognition for those who earned it, and who
met their end in service to his causes. WHY?
kirwan
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