Five Years in Iraq

And the rich are still not paying for this war. Our young men and women in the services are paying their all for it, though.

Lies and more lies, almost 4000 young American lives gone, tens of thousands of young Americans injured, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead and injured, millions of Iraqis who have fled their homes. And Bush calls this “worth it”. Worth what? The neocon dream of empire, the ridiculous oil profits, the billions to war contractors? Worth it. To whom, Mr. Bush — not to the American people or the Iraqi public, that’s for sure.

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It seems if your a business you just drive up to the FED ATM without a card and take your money – no problem. If you have a home and ask for 60 days to try and come up with a solution to save it, they want three hundred pages of information and then tell you no way. I’m an Iraq veteran whose unit was activated 4 times for there and keeping a regular job was not an option as my employers wouldn’t tolerate the abscences despite laws to the contrary. I have a number of medals for bravery but no home for my family, Ironically JP Morgan Chase has it now and they are just agents for Deutsche Bank. Now, it looks like I may be called up again to go to Iraq. Before all this I was as stable as iron. Not anymore, health problems and homelessness is my reality, with a family on the streets. and a projected return to Iraq. I guess I fought for nothing! America’s not my dream anymore, it’s someone else’s and I just don’t understand it. I’ve done everything by the book with honor and yet it’s been a diaster. I’m pretty well done at 21.
Comment by Fred Martinez – March 18, 2008 at 7:20 pm