Iraq

I've been pretty quiet during this whole war and aftermath. No more. I was on CNN.com today and saw an article about a bombing of a mess tent in Mosul. They mentioned some units at that base and one of them happens to be the unit of a very close friend. Immediately I scroll to the list of soldiers that have died in Iraq and scan for her name. They hadn't updated it yet. As I continue to scroll I'm seeing more and more LT's there. Well, first off, the list is far too long. And the number of high ranking enlisted and officers surprises me. I couldn't help but stop at every LT that has died and read about him or her. It got me to thinking, one of them could be my friend, one of them probably IS my friend...so I stopped reading the names. It was too depressing. These poor kids...no one asked them if they wanted to go, they just sent them with a rifle and some shoddy equipment and told them to go fight for a cause that wasn't real. Then we loose over 1,000 kids and Rumsfeld and Bush are like, oops, no WMDs. Our bad. Well we may as well continue fighting there because we created a huge mess and if we leave it'll only get worse. Hey we need more kids to go over there and risk your lives. So they send more kids and hey, some of them die too. Great. Way to go US Government. This is a great cause. Rumsfeld can't even sign a card with his own fucking signature. He's so Goddamn lazy that he uses a computer to do it. Can't be bothered...Maybe he should scroll down the list and have to look at the smiling faces of these kids whose parents will never see their child again. No one will ever get to see that smiling face, or the smiling face of over 1,000 of his brothers and sisters because George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld thought it was a good cause....THERE WAS NO CAUSE and there won't be a cause. Now we're still dying over there with more shitty equipment and Rumsfeld can't even do shit about that. I love my country, I would die to defend it, but never would I die for them...