It's stuff like this that makes me want to cuss. What I will actually do is spread this info like the flu to everyone I know and then I will remind them to vote. Please cut and paste it, blog about it, send it as a response to the next "happy-smappy go USA because Jesus voted for Bush" fwd someone sends you.
Education is the answer folks.
Bodies Sent To Families On Commercial Airliners
POSTED: 4:46 pm PST December 9, 2005
UPDATED: 10:19 am PST December 12, 2005
"...Dead heroes are supposed to come home with their coffins draped with the American flag -- greeted by a color guard. But in reality, many are arriving as freight on commercial airliners -- stuffed in the belly of a plane with suitcases and other cargo.
John Holley and his wife, Stacey, were stunned when they found out the body of their only child, Matthew John Holley, who died in Iraq last month, would be arriving at Lindbergh Field as freight. Matthew was a medic with the 101st Airborne unit and died on Nov. 15.
'When someone dies in combat, they need to give them due respect they deserve for (the) sacrifice they made," said John Holley'..."
Love is not a word that fits this despicable 'crusade'
Published: December 12, 2005
"...Westboro Baptist Church says the military casualties are God’s punishment for defending a country that tolerates homosexuality. Phelps goes as far as to say that natural disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Rita are God’s punishment on America, too. The protests have nothing to do with the sexuality of the fallen service members.
Just as inexplicably, Phelps and his followers have called their protests “Love Crusades.” A member of the Westboro church says protesters may turn up today outside Patten’s funeral if their schedules permit..."
Homeless Veterans: An Ongoing National and Local Disgrace
Published: 12/12/2005 09:48
"...In December 2005, a veterans’ self-help agency in Brooklyn noted that they had seen “approximately 60 [veterans from the War on Terror] with serious housing needs, at least six of whom spent time in homeless shelters.” One of the program’s directors stated that, With Vietnam, you did not see homeless veterans during the conflict…What’s alarming [now] is the conflict is still in progress and you’re already seeing reported cases of homelessness. This is something new..."
When humor tells us troubling truths...about ourselves
12.13.05
"...So let's review: immediately after the President told us that more than 32,000 people have been killed, he moved seamlessly into joking around - and the audience yukked it up, as if they either hadn't even heard the casualty count, or didn't care. 32,000 people - that's like filling up an NBA arena and killing everyone in it. How could someone immediately then start hamming it up? Worse, how could the people sitting there laugh along?
The answer is clear for both the President and the audience. The reason the president could laugh it up after telling us an NBA arena's worth of people had been killed is because he and the neoconservative advisers around him who pushed this war have never actually served in combat..."
2 comments:
I wonder how the baptist church would punish me for my sins?
Actually, I think it is very sad. Churches like that give all churches (or baptist churches) a bad name. It reminds me of the time I was all worked up explaining to my step father that being a Muslim does not equate to being a terrorist. Just like being a Christian does not equate with being a pro-life, homophobic, purist republican.
I'm sure I deserve to be burned at the steak.
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