Casualties were people too

Further to my post where I referred to that sad fact "that these poor buggers have to die for a lie", TRex at FDL has a post called Why It Matters which is rather poignant and makes a point that needs to be made -- real kids, nice kids have, and will continue to, die and be wounded for this bogus, obscene, immoral invasion and this Bush man's hubris.

TRex:

I looked at their beautiful hair and skin, their long, straight limbs, their bright, curious eyes and I wondered how many of them would end up on a plane to Germany with burns over 80 percent of their bodies. How many wonÂ't even get that far?

George Bush and good Republicans like Joe Lieberman don'’t want to admit that the War in Iraq is a failure. They're afraid to do anything that might Show Weakness In An Election Year. (And you see how well that'’s working out for Joe Lieberman.) Every day they postpone facing up to the mess they'’ve made, more soldiers die. DIE.

Not. Ever. Coming. Home.

Ever.

I was lucky as hell. My father came home uninjured from Vietnam. A little baby is going to be born tomorrow who'’s not lucky like that. And for what? To give Halliburton the right to bury 20 tons of nails in the Iraqi desert because they'’re the wrong size?

A vote for Joe Lieberman? It'’s a vote to kill another American soldier. By not deciding. By "staying the course". By not facing up to the reality that our troops'’ lives and bodies are not to be squandered on corporate wars. The reason the Republicans don'’t want the war to end is because they haven'’t gotten an adequate return on their investment. That oil's not flowing. "If we leave now, things will only get worse." Well, yeah. That'’ll mean we didn'’t get any oil at ALL!

Bring the troops home.