Reply #10: sadly [View All]

my wife and I just had that exact conversation - for the jillionth time


I got some pictures submitted by a visitor to my Zeitlangers website to fill in some blanks in the early days of the war - a 19-year-old kid who died SIX YEARS ago.


Sad story - troubled kid - at the time the story was he'd shot himself; people disbelieved it, but I have not seen any followup.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EFD91E3CF93AA35751C1A9679C8B63

Giovanny was the eighth military fatality in the "war on terror," just 2-1/2 months after 9/11. Now six years later we have 4343 total fatalities, bin Laden is still free, Al Queda is as strong as ever, much of the world hates us. Giovanny's death was a waste. Some of the others in the early days of rousting Al Queda from its strongholds in Afghanistan weren't a waste - they were actually "taking it to them" in response to the attack. But that didn't last long, and the gains were given back, making their sacrifices be of less value.

SIX YEARS! Six years of this travesty, of lying, cheating, slandering, philandering, torturing, and the public just keeps rolling over and saying do it again. We are ALL batterred wives.