Bush’s soldier-kids
Common Dreams
by Jacqueline Marcus
01/21/07
As I was standing in line at the market the other day, I looked up and noticed between the tabloid magazines, bubble gum and chocolate bars, the cover of Time Magazine: a young boy in a combat helmet who looked no older than fourteen. … During the recent televised interviews, George W. Bush referred to our soldiers as ‘kids.’ He was smiling, completely unaffected by the unconscionable fact of his assertion. No one says a word, including Hillary Clinton, who was proud to announce that she called a young boy’s mother in New York from an Afghanistan military medical camp to let her know that her son is getting good medical assistance. … Bush’s ’surge’ is a military euphemism for sacrificing twenty thousand CHILDREN into his Iraq’s purgatory. And should his ’soldier-kids’ survive Iraq’s purgatory, many will return without legs, arms or faces severely deformed beyond recognition...
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0120-23.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
by Jacqueline Marcus
01/21/07
As I was standing in line at the market the other day, I looked up and noticed between the tabloid magazines, bubble gum and chocolate bars, the cover of Time Magazine: a young boy in a combat helmet who looked no older than fourteen. … During the recent televised interviews, George W. Bush referred to our soldiers as ‘kids.’ He was smiling, completely unaffected by the unconscionable fact of his assertion. No one says a word, including Hillary Clinton, who was proud to announce that she called a young boy’s mother in New York from an Afghanistan military medical camp to let her know that her son is getting good medical assistance. … Bush’s ’surge’ is a military euphemism for sacrificing twenty thousand CHILDREN into his Iraq’s purgatory. And should his ’soldier-kids’ survive Iraq’s purgatory, many will return without legs, arms or faces severely deformed beyond recognition...
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0120-23.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
rudkla - 22. Jan, 16:30
