Letters to the Editor
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Dying for a win
Today my son is in Iraq. This is the third deployment between my two Marine sons and the most dangerous to date. It has been a nightmare, but I know that others have suffered far more. For those who have suffered the loss of precious life after the futility of this misconceived exercise in hubris has been fully viewed and acknowledged by all but its architects, the pain must be unbearable.
With each deployment, it has become increasingly obvious that we are mired in failure. And that failure has increased exponentially as the determination of this President and his cohorts to pursue a course of needless loss of life and loss of liberty as become cast in stone. At least until after the elections.
It is beyond despicable that George Bush and his band of arrogant incompetents are holding onto their "stay the course" rhetoric in the face of escalating American and Iraqi casualties...all for the sake of saving face and retaining power. Holding on until November 7 qualifies them all for undisputed classification as callous thugs and garden-variety murderers. Deliberately sending our troops into harms way now is nothing more, or less, than recklessness on a scale that is virtually incomprehensible.
If this isn't criminality, what is?