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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Posted at 1/25/2005 10:15:27 pm by SpannerJaxs
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On Buzzflash today Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star Families For Peace wrote a moving post about how she attempted to meet Don Rumsfeld to speak with him, but was denied access to the man who helped send her son to death for a lie:
We were all meeting in DC to protest the inauguration and we thought it would be a good time to meet with Donald Rumsfeld. We have many questions to ask him about our loved ones' deaths and we deserve to have some answers. I think it is our right as Americans and grieving families to have these answers. For example, why were the children of this country sent to fight a war without the proper training, equipment or armor? Why were our children sent to fight a war that had no basis in reality? Why are American children still over there fighting a war, and dying in a war, when all the reasons for the war have been proven false? When is this administration going to bring the rest of our children home before it's too late for their families?
If we were granted an audience with him, we didn't really expect Mr. Rumsfeld to be truthful with us or even polite to us considering his past history of being so sarcastically untruthful and blatantly rude. The real reason I wanted to meet with Rumsfeld was so he could see the face of my son, Spc Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Sadr City on 04/04/04. I wanted him to look me in the face and see my red swollen eyes and to see all the lines that grief has etched. I wanted him to see the unbearable pain his ignorance and arrogance has caused me and my family. I wanted him to know that his actions have terrible consequences.
Our letters, phone calls, faxes, and e-mails to the Pentagon were to no avail: we received no response. So in conjunction with Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) we decided to go to the Pentagon and try and meet with someone, anyone. We were met at the parking lot by a couple of dozen of police officers blocking our way. We were told that we weren't allowed to go into the Pentagon because we didn't go through the proper protocol to request a meeting!!
I find it so ironic that with all the tight security for the events in DC this week that enough time and energy was mustered to stop families in mourning so forcefully at the Pentagon. I also find it ironic that if I were a wealthy Republican who had donated large sums of money for the "re"-election of the President, I could have had access to all the big wigs at the lavish parties -- but I, whose son paid the ultimate price of his precious life to this country, can't even get within a half of a mile from the man who sent him to die.
She has a good point.
By the way if you didn't know, a Gold Star flag is given to the families of those who died in combat. Their voices whether pro or con for this war should be treated with respect by anyone. You may not agree with what they say but be aware they paid a price to say it. A price most of us are unwilling to pay. Just ask the Cult leader.
But we at The Rat have the ultimate respect for anyone who sacrifice for our nation. Thaws why were giving Gold Star Families For Peace a permanent link.
Posted at 1/25/2005 12:25:38 am by SpannerJaxs
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Monday, January 24, 2005
"I am left now with a single word seared into my consciousness: accountability. The chance to hold our administration's feet to that flame has passed. But what of our citizenry? We are the ones who truly failed. We shut down our ability to think critically, to listen, to converse and to act. We are to blame.
Even with every prewar assumption having been proved false, today more than 130,000 U.S. soldiers are trying to stay alive in a foreign desert with no clear mission at hand.
At home, the sidelines are overcrowded with patriots. These Americans cower from the fight they instigated in Iraq. In a time of war and record budget deficits, many are loath to even pay their taxes. In the end, however, it is not their family members who are at risk, and they do not sit up at night pleading with fate to spare them."-Dante Zappala
Posted at 1/24/2005 8:33:51 pm by SpannerJaxs
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A NICE TRIBUTE TO OUR TROOPS
Posted at 1/24/2005 8:14:51 pm by SpannerJaxs
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Sunday, January 23, 2005
AND IN OTHER NEWS...WE'RE LOSING THE WAR
The guys at Knight Ridder (who by most accounts have been doing the best reporting on the war) said that if the Bush Cult doesn't change its strategy (ie get the fuck out) we might lose the war:
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Unless something dramatic changes, the United States is heading toward losing the war in Iraq.
A Knight Ridder Newspapers analysis of U.S. government statistics shows the U.S. military steadily losing ground to the predominately Sunni Muslim insurgency in Iraq.
The analysis suggests that, short of a newfound will by Iraqis to reject the insurgency or a large escalation of U.S. troop strength, the United States won't win the war.
Military thinkers say insurgencies are especially hard to defeat because the insurgents' goal isn't to win in a conventional sense but to survive until the will of the occupying power is sapped. Recent polls suggest an erosion of support among Americans for the war.
Remember Boys and Girls, this war was never about gaining ground or winning fire fights. We're winning those. No. This war is about hearts and minds. We're losing that war every single day.
Posted at 1/23/2005 3:15:01 am by SpannerJaxs
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I got the heads up for this from an email my brotha from anotha mutha, The Heretic, sent me from Iraq.
I'll let him tell you in his own words what happened:
These kids were in the backseat when their parents came up on a check point to fast for the comfort of the soldiers.
Their parents were both shoot and killed and the men found out afterwards that six children were in the vehicle.
More and more children are becoming orphaned because of violence in Iraq. A large percentage of children in Iraq are beginning to show signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and will never be treated properly.
All a result of living in an environment were hostility has become common place.
the heretic
I blame this on Bush and the people who voted for him.
They are solely responsible. Not our troops but Bush, the cult leader.
The blood of the dead are on our hands America. Not our troops. Ours. You voted for this mad man. You voted for him and see what he has done in our name.
Are you proud of the "liberty", "freedom" and "democracy" we are spreading?
One day you will face your maker America and God will ask us all but one question in regard to the sin that is the Iraq War:
"Why?"
(Images courtesy of Crisis in Pictures)
Posted at 1/23/2005 2:53:41 am by SpannerJaxs
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Saturday, January 22, 2005
"You could fit a Caraway Seed and Karl Rove's Heart Through the Gap in Rice's Front Teeth and Have Enough Room Left to Squeeze Through Her 'Integrity.'" - Buzzflash
Posted at 1/22/2005 6:37:47 pm by SpannerJaxs
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Friday, January 21, 2005
I have had a few friends in Iraq for a while.
Last Saturday my cousin was deployed to Iraq. He will serve our nation and make us all proud. That the kind of guy he is. He's a good man. He'll protect you America. Thats his job.
Yesterday the cult leader celebrated his coronation, with his two daughters in attendance. As I looked upon the Bush twins looking so lovely in their designer dresses I couldn't help but wonder what my aunt was thinking as she saw that. They dropped 40 million to celebrate that her son is in Iraq.
In a perfect world, my cousin and friends are here with their families and the Bush twins are liberating Fallujah.
God bless you G. Get home safe. We all love and miss you.
Posted at 1/21/2005 2:02:34 am by SpannerJaxs
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We found this on Daily Kos.
Consider it The Rat's response to the Bush Cult:
"We will fight them, sir, until hell freezes over. And then, sir, we will fight them on the ice."- Raybin of the Daily Kos.
Posted at 1/21/2005 1:36:09 am by SpannerJaxs
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Posted at 1/20/2005 3:49:58 am by SpannerJaxs
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