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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.
www.alternet.org/

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/

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/l

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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