Iraq War vet pens ‘last letter’ to Bush and Cheney

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from tomdavis:

Interesting that PolitiFact refuses to do a similar analysis for Bush.

How come some right wing org doesn't do it ? My guess is the results wouldn't be pretty

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from tomdavis:

He signed up. He volunteered. Nobody forced him to join the military.

Was he really so naive as to think that he would have the choice of where and how the war would be fought?

Sounds to me like a he made a bad decision and now he's looking for someone to blame.

Seriously. "I joined the army to fight who I wanted, not who you wanted me to" should have read the letter.

 

[pspr]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

How come some right wing org doesn't do it ? My guess is the results wouldn't be pretty

If you admit it was a left wing analysis on Obama then the results can be take as completely bogus. Which I'm sure they are.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from pspr:

If you admit it was a left wing analysis

I never said it was left wing analysis

 

[Grandluxe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/iraq-war-vet-letter-bush-cheney-tomas-young-154541674.html


Iraq War vet pens ‘last letter’ to Bush and Cheney


An Iraq War veteran who joined the U.S. Army two days after 9/11 has written a powerful open letter to former President George W. Bush and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney accusing them of war crimes, "plunder" and "the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."

Tomas Young, who was shot and paralyzed during an insurgent attack in Sadr City in 2004, five days into his first deployment, penned the letter from his Kansas City, Mo., home, where he's under hospice care.

"I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney," Young wrote in the letter published on Truthdig.com. "I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole."

The 33-year-old, who was the subject of Phil Donahue's 2007 documentary "Body of War," continued:

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues.

Young believes he was injured fighting the wrong war:

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

"When Tomas Young saw President Bush on television speaking from the ruins of the Twin Towers, his life changed," his bio on the "Body of War" website reads. "As his basic training began at Ft. Hood, he assumed that he would be shipped off to Afghanistan where the terrorist camps were based, routing out Al Qaeda and Taliban warriors. But soon, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq."

In an interview with Truthdig.com, Young—who suffered an anoxic brain injury in 2008—said he had been contemplating "conventional" suicide, but decided to go on hospice care, "stop feeding and fade away."

He said, "This way, instead of committing the conventional suicide and I am out of the picture, people have a way to stop by or call and say their goodbyes," Young said. "I felt this was a fairer way to treat people than to just go out with a note."

Looks like he was more pissed off about getting injured,paralyzed and an impending end to his life because he bought into all that Hoo-Rah Hollywood BS. Let's face it, in almost every country, those who join the army are poor uneducated small town kids who bought into the propaganda. The real victors of war are Harvard/Wharton biz grads chomping cigars in their mansions who make all the decisions but would never dream of risking bodily harm in any manner. That's the way it has always been.

 

[jem]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

73 % of promises kept, compromised or in the works

politifact is more full of b.s. than the politicians they cover.

We once went through it here on et.

74 % of their analysis was either a complete lie or in the process of becoming a lie.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from jem:

politifact is more full of b.s. than the politicians they cover.

No,they aren't.They are a respected Pulitzer prize winning media organization

 

[Mercor]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

73 % of promises kept, compromised or in the works

It is the promises kept that are the problem. I see 241 failures to help this country.
I see 119 broken promises that most likely have been a benefit to this country.

 

[trendlover]

Quote from Grandluxe:

Let's face it, in almost every country, those who join the army are poor uneducated small town kids who bought into the propaganda.
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Si, so you can see AK47 link is true that man realize he fight in Iraq for oil, when he think he fighting against the attack of the world trade center from Afghanistan.

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

No,they aren't.They are a respected Pulitzer prize winning media organization

right and obama has a nobel peace prize for the war in afghanistan. and tripling drone strikes.

you mean that kind of respect?