Thank you, Mr. President… Or should I say fuck you?
For those who haven’t heard, Leslie’s cousin was killed in Iraq on Monday, September 26th. He and two other soldiers were travelling in a vehicle in Baghdad when a bomb exploded, killing all three occupants.
Michael Wendling, 20, was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard. He was sent to Iraq at the end of August, 2005. Why the Army has to send troops to deal with a domestic issue in New Orleans, while the National Guard is fighting a foreign war in Iraq, is just one of many, many hard questions that have not been adequately asked by our supposed liberal media, nor answered by our supposed Commander-in-Chief. How many lives will be wasted before we pull out of a country that will simply dissolve into civil war upon our departure anyway? How much more international animosity can we garner? How hated must we become?
Equally as horrifying is the fact that very little mention of this incident can be found anywhere in the national or international media. A brief mention of it was placed inside a story discussing the murders of severl Iraqi schoolteachers; nowhere else have I been able to locate mention of their deaths.
It seems that support of our troops is a feeling to be kept on bumpers and tailgates, not in our social consciousness, or in the minds of our leaders.
/moment of silence