The Xoff Files: How many more wasted lives?

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Is the way to honor Americans who have died in Iraq to send more Americans to die? This family doesn't think so.

At 5:42 PM, XOut said...: Wasted lives? That's just plain sick. I count one in this whole war, your fallen Saint Cindy. She is the only wasted life in this whole war, and she still walks and breathes.
At 11:42 PM, Michael said...: The only way those lives are "wasted" is if we come home without finishing the job. Then they really did die for nothing.
At 1:49 AM, XOut said...: Elliot gets this! This is a one sick post Xoff.
At 8:40 AM, xoff said...: Perhaps you failed to click through the links. Here is what the father who lost a son in Iraq wrote in his piece in the Washington Post:

Though it hurts, I believe that his death -- and that of the other Americans who have died in Iraq -- was a waste. They were wasted in a belief that democracy would grow simply by removing a dictator -- a careless misunderstanding of what democracy requires. They were wasted by not sending enough troops to do the job needed in the resulting occupation -- a careless disregard for professional military counsel.

But their deaths will not be in vain if Americans stop hiding behind flag-draped hero masks and stop whispering their opposition to this war. Until then, the lives of other sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers may be wasted as well.