I think one good way (for the leaders) of observing Memorial Day is by ensuring that the list of soldiers added to the next year's commemoration is minimized. While offering his respects today, I wish that President Bush would acquire wisdom, gather courage, admit that the war in Iraq is being fought for a wrong cause, and order the troops to pull out of Iraq ASAP. I realize that it is hard for any of us to admit our own big faults. But shouldn't the leader of the free world be a little different than the rest?
Some argue that if the troops are pulled out of Iraq now, the world would perceive the US as a coward, ergo, the status quo - stay the course. It appears that hundreds of soldiers are dying in this wrong war (along with thousands of innocent civilians on the other side of the line) predominantly to satiate the ego of the leaders (and their constituents). Here is a comic strip I loved from yesterday's Austin American Statesman about the Mission Accomplished.
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Gopa, the Iraq war is the modern-day version of "The Emperor has no clothes".
What a sad state of affairs. The pity is that the Iraqi viewpoint hardly makes headline news.
The US will pay for this bad.
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