Posted by fayeroe on January 25, 2007, at 17:20:22
In reply to Re: nephew killed in Iraq » fayeroe, posted by Declan on January 25, 2007, at 13:32:50
> Pat, I'm so sorry. And it's not even as if you can tell yourself that it was worth it (forgive me if I'm wrong).
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> Isn't that the difference between good wars and bad ones? People are killed in both, but in a good war it was *for* something?
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> That was the problem with the whole WMD thing. It wasn't just a question of finding a package that would sell to the American people.
> Any comparison with Churchill (for heaven's sake) is ludicrous. WMD was not telling the truth at a time of maximum peril.
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> This mix of virtue, arrogance, hubris and idealism (not to speak of ignorance!).......yet so many of the junior officers in "The Assassins Gate" are very admirable people.
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> What a waste it all is, what a mess. Who knows where it will end up?it will end when we're ground into the ground. i go between the intense crying jags to intense screaming and angry diatribes......it's beyond the pale. it isn't anywhere near a "he died for his country" grief.......WMDs......and all of the other reasons why we're there.......:-(
my SIL made it back safe in October and i was counting the weeks til my nephew came home. he was a surgeon and i thought he was a little safer due to his job.....thanks so much, declan.......xoxoxo pat
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