Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young,
then a 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., made a decision repeated by many
other Americans around the country: He was going to enlist in the military in
hopes of getting even with the enemies who had helped coordinate the deaths of
nearly 3,000 men, women and children. Less than three years later, Young's Army
service placed him not in Afghanistan -- where then-President George W. Bush
had told the nation the terrorist plot had originated -- but in Iraq. On April
4, 2004, just five days into his first tour, Young's convoy was attacked by
insurgents. A bullet from an AK-47 severed his spine. Another struck his knee.
Young would never walk again, and in fact, for the next nearly nine years, he
would suffer a number of medical setbacks
that allowed him to survive only with
the help of extensive medical procedures and the care of his wife, Claudia. The
incident turned Young into one of the most vocal veteran critics of the Iraq
War. He has, however, saved his most powerful criticism for what he claims will
be his last. Young says he'll die soon, but not before writing a letter to Bush
and former Vice President Cheney on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. From
Young's letter, published on TruthDig:
I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr.
Cheney. 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. (Source: Huffington Post, where else?)
Editor's notes: Sadly, this young
man, soon to die, according to reports, could not be more misguided. While no one can deny his service, apparently he hated his own service, believing it was based upon lies, having served under a murdering capitalist Commander in Chief who was in Iraq for personal gain, and
personal gain only.
Sorry for his injuries,
but the soldier’s comments are so much crap. GW Bush believed that Iraq had WMD’s because
Bill Clinton and Clinton’s CIA director told him (GWB) so. They
- the Clintonians told George
Bush about the supposed WMDs. Not only
the CIA, but every intelligence agency
in the world came up with this report.
All Bush could do was receive the information and make the only decision
he could make, in light of the existing
intel reporting. Of course, Saddam,
himself, had used WMDs on his own
people, and continued to claim that he
possessed such weapons.
To argue that Bush lied is not only wrong, but it is stupid wrong. There is absolutely no basis for such, and both Colin Powell and Bill Clinton have
confirmed the truth of this matter, in
times past.
Secondly, Bush nor
Cheney profited from the war, nor did
the United States take a single drop of oil out of Iraq.
More than that, we
won that war and killed nearly 40,000 terrorists in doing so. Most of the “collateral” deaths, in Iraq,
were at the hands of the murdering and filthy minded Muslim
jihadists.
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