Comment
11/02/08; DVM
(Article: 'Holding on to Hope'; by Michael Winerip;
NYT):
The Mom describes doctors saying to her over and over,
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Me too. That is the first thing I want to
say: I'm so sorry.
Second: Provide medical assistance to wounded soldiers.
Spare no expense.
Third: To any thinking of it, do not send your sons or
daughters into this nation's genocide wars. The best
estimates so far are that two million or more Iraqi citizens,
including half a million Iraqi children, are dead because of
us.
This story in which we feel such terrible pain in our hearts
for a brain-injured young man, makes one wonder what
kind of people are we, when our leaders say that the
deaths of five-hundred thousand children in Iraq were worth
it, as Clinton's foreign affairs secretary, Madelaine Albright,
said.
Don't do it. Hide your sons and daughters away. These
wars are games of empire. They have nothing to do with
defending the country. 9/11 was blowback for the deaths
of Iraqi children and other war crimes and atrocities
caused by the American government.
My heart breaks for the mother sharing her story of
devastation and grief at what has happened to her soldier
son.
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