Letter From a Military Family

[barman]

From yesterday's St. Petersburg Times (Florida's largest newspaper) comes this Letter to the Editor:

Time for the madness to end

Today marks the first anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. The administration would have us believe that we have had a great victory in Iraq.

As a father of a recently deployed Army Reservist in Baghdad, I disagree with that assessment. We have had more than 660 coalition troops killed, including more than 560 Americans and no end in sight. This decries the administration's politically motivated public statements and faults them for their belief that the American public can continue to be duped.

My son hopefully will turn 21 on April 9, and my wife and I and the families of all the soldiers in Iraq pray constantly that sanity and honesty will finally come to those in Washington who make the decisions on war and peace.

No weapons of mass destruction. More than 560 Americans reported dead. Thousands more wounded. American honesty and integrity disgraced worldwide. It is time for the madness to end.

This past Sunday, my son called us from Baghdad. He told us that of all the troops he has met since being in Iraq, including his own unit, that George W. Bush will not win the military vote in Iraq. These are the soldiers on the front lines. Hopefully their thoughts will get through to those of us back here at home.


-- J. Kevin King, Lutz

 

[Shotgun]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by barman:

This past Sunday, my son called us from Baghdad. He told us that of all the troops he has met since being in Iraq, including his own unit, that George W. Bush will not win the military vote in Iraq. These are the soldiers on the front lines. Hopefully their thoughts will get through to those of us back here at home.

-- J. Kevin King, Lutz<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have two cousins, a brother-in-law, and scores of other friends that have or are serving in Iraq and Afganistan. Each one complains about the conditions over there: not one has said the US shouldn't have been involved in the Iraqi liberation. Not one has a bad word to say about Bush. 3rd hand reporting "my son says everyone says..." is certainly interesting; it is hardly reliable and likely a lie.

Kerry will be lucky to get Al Gore's percentage of the military vote. I imagine Democrat lawyers are hard at work right now devising ways to disallow overseas votes from soldiers just like they did in 2000.

 

[PatPatriot]

I have freind who I work with thats in the guard 35 years old.He was in Kuwait when the ground war started.His duties were mainly food service.But when the war started he had to help evacuate wounded and dead coming back from the front lines for 3 weeks.He had to go to his commander and tell him he couldn't stand it anymore and tell him it wasn't really his job.They took him off the job and he came home about 4 mos. later....I asked him if he thought if it was worth it.He said Yes.I asked Would you go back he said yes...This is from a guy who saw first hand the wounded dead and dying,and admitted he didn't have the stomach for it....Thats courage,and thats what he belives in.