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"Can we win? I don't think you can win it."
Bush after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, Today show Aug.2004
Much has taken place since then
but with Bush feeling that way...why continue to spill our troops blood ??? The best of this nation have given their all in
an unjust war and continue to do so...why continue to ask for more of them when you have given them so very little in
return???
Our men and women in the Armed
Forces are the best we ever had...young...bright...eager  to help change the world for the better and for their children...I have met many of these dedicated troops and I have seen
their hearts before...in a different war and at another time...
The cost of this war comes in
many ways a s do they all...the face of war is a face better not seen...War must be a measure of last resort not of first strike if a
civilized world is to exist...When we send our Forces out to fight and die it should not be because of bad intell or one man's
desire...it should not be for money and power and the welfare of the rich and famous and  the greed of others...
The life of one young man or
woman is not worth the killing of tens of thousands of innocent lives for a lie yet it continues to this day...at this very
second a bomb has taken the lives of children...old men women...at this moment another American troop is killed...
Tell me someone...when is enough really going to be enough
???
When you’ve been injured by a combatant,
the message you want to send back to your enemy is that I’m still stronger than you. I am not beat. We send that message
worldwide whenever we get our picture on the cover of the newspaper or a magazine or the television and it gets around the
world. People look at that and say, ‘Look at these great American warriors. Even when we blow them up and beat them
down, they’ll stand up and run again and fight again.’ And, you know, we’re Americans and that’s what
we’re all about."
Maj. David Rozelle
To troops injured and recovering
"It's not getting knocked down that's important, it is the getting back up again and going on. It is the reaching inside and
finding that steel in all of us."
Gen. Frederick M. Franks Jr.
"I've learned that I've got to
stop thinking about the things I could have done,I'm just glad to be here"
Cpl. Isaiah
Ramirez
"It sounds ridiculous, but you
feel guilty that you're back home safe"
Maj. David Rozelle
"I can't imagine being a 19, 20-year-old guy
and facing the life challenges they have to face," said Granville. "We attempt to empathize, but we can't."
Col. Robert Granville
"As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself --
not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of
f act, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here,
but thanks for your compassion, Colonel."
George W. Bush, after visiting with
wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
I don't know...to
me it takes a pretty cold and uncaring heart to talk about a little scratch after seeing first hand the damage that
came to be because of lies and deciet...maybe that's just me...
Shame I Say...Shame
Perks and stardom do
not come to every amputee. Sgt. David Thomas, a gunner with the Tennessee National Guard, spent his firs t three months at Walter Reed with no decent clothes; medics in Samarra had cut off his uniform. Heavily drugged, missing
one leg and suffering from traumatic brain injury, David, 42, was finally told by a physical therapist to go to the Red Cross
office, where he was given a T-shirt and sweat pants. He was awarded a Purple Heart but had no underwear.
David
tangled with Walter Reed's image machine when he wanted to attend a  ceremony for a fellow amputee, a Mexican national who was being granted U.S. citizenship by President Bush. A case worker
quizzed him about what he would wear. It was summer, so David said shorts. The case manager said the media would be there
and shorts were not advisable because the amputees would be seated in the front row..
" 'Are you telling me
that I can't go to the ceremony 'cause I'm an amputee?' " David recalled asking. "She said, 'No, I'm saying you need to wear
pants.' "
David told the case worker, "I'm not ashamed of what I did, and y'all shouldn't
be neither." When the guest list came out for the ceremony, his name was not on it.
Americablog
Here is but a handful of
the many troops that gave their all for this Country...right or wrong they were called on and they served with pride honor
and distinction...Their sacrifice must not be for nothing...out of their ashes a peace must come to this world...lessons need
to be learned from this total diaster and lack of respect for the Consitution that they Swore an oath to up hold...By the
grace of God...
It is foolish and wrong to mourn
the men who dies. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George
S. Patton
I am not for any war as
no man should be...I do however know the need for it and support our men and women in their service and scarfice to our
country...They are who I weep for and concern over...Them and their families...May God Bless them and keep them close to Him...
We sleep safely in our beds because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us.
George Orwell
When war, as in these days in Iraq,
threatens the fate of humanity, it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that only peace is the
road to follow to construct a more just and united society. Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of man."
Pope John Paul II
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies
with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
Albert Pike
"American soldiers in battle don't fight for
what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another."
Lt. Col. Hal Moore
Death leaves a heartache no one
can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
a headstone in Ireland
"It is well that war is so terrible, else we
should grow too fond of it."
General Robert E. Lee
A SOLDIERS WISH
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To
stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought
and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."
unknown
"For those who have fought for it, freedom has
a flavor the protected will never know."
Unknown
Do not stand at my grave and Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not
there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on snow.
I
am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the
swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the stars that shine at night.
Do not
stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
Author Unknown
IRAQ
There have been 4,202 coalition deaths -- 3,896 Americans,
two Australians, 173  Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh,
one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians
-- in the war in Iraq as of December 18, 2007
AFGHANISTAN
There have been 735 coalition deaths --
468 Americans, four Australians, 86 Britons, 73 Canadians, one Czech, seven Danes, 12 Dutch, two Estonians, one Finn, 12 French,
22 Germans, 10 Italians, three Norwegians, one Pole, two Portuguese, five Romanians, one South Korean, 23 Spaniards, two Swedes
-- in the war on terror as of December 18, 2007
Cost of the War
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