The Last Letter
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas YoungI write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
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I read the whole thing elsewhere, it’s a powerful statement but also a testament to the unaccountability of the high and the mighty in American politics. Nothing will be done, nothing has been done. That and there are still a collection of fools out there who think Saddam actually had WMD, endless proof to the contrary or not.
Really Jason
Was that a question, RD?
Let’s also remember the quote about looking forward rather than back.. that’s our dear leader BHO. The entire thing makes me nauseated.
I know. Unless Bush’s views of heaven and hell are correct (and why would he be right about that when he is wrong about everything else?), this letter is the most accountability Bush will ever have to endure.
Pitiful.