Billions?

This was never meant to be remembered. It is KEPT out of sight and the public goes about their business more upset about the low gas prices of the middle east than the loss of lives in a war that this country HAS NEVER GOTTEN BEHIND.

The failure is not in the government, it is in the PEOPLE who ALLOW thier children to fight and die without justification.

I would much rather shower my pride on a child behind bars for refusing to fight for cause that has not been shown to be justified, than to cry my pride over the grave of my child without ever understanding why.

We can blame the government, but what are their numbers compared to the number of POEPLE who should be the voice of the government, the conscience of the government?

Where were these voices when the children were asked to agree to kill and be killed? Where were the intelligent thoughts of our young people when they were asked? Where where the adults standing behind the children with wisdom and support to CHOOSE with logic and heart, instead of some idealistic, romantic notion of heroism. All the years of playing war with their GI Joes and the exciting equipment and gear and oh yes how the government will make it worth "what?"

Speak to those who know the truth of how this government treats their vets. Perhaps, they were never expected to return in the first place?

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT, WE GAVE CONTROL, ONLY WE CAN GAIN IT BACK.

Stand behind or in front of or beside, those who walk toward to their doom, and tell them, it's ok not to go. It's ok to ask for justification. It's not ok to follow blinly into the absudity of idealism whose foundation is death, destruction, the return of those whose minds are lost forever.

We have failed many - how many more will the silence, and mislaid blame betray?

Where is the justification? Where is the proof that we belong in any other country than our own, defending our very lives?

Show me the proof?

you want proof. remember the 3000 Americans that died on 9/11. who was hiding bin laden the Taliban. that all the proof i need.

Dont you remember 9-11?

My memory is not so good. What were the names of all those involved? Where are their families from and how were we able to tie them to the Afagahnistan government? Where was the information that linked their funding to the source of a war?

What about the sharp minds who say that it was an inside job.....?. .

How about a confession?

You aren't one of those conspiracy theorist that believe the government did it are you?

'It's gonna be a bloodbath,' fallen soldier told father

(CNN) -- Cpl. Gunnar Zwilling suspected that his days were numbered last week, while he and his band of brothers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team prepared for a mission near Wanat, Afghanistan.

"It's gonna be a bloodbath," he told his father, Kurt Zwilling, on the phone in what would be their last conversation.

Kurt Zwilling braced himself for the worst but held out hope that his son would make it home.

"They were in the most dangerous place on Earth. They were in mortal danger, and there was nothing they could do it about it," he said. "But they were soldiers, so they had to do their job."

With just a few days left in their 15-month tour, Gunnar Zwilling and eight of his comrades were killed July 13 in a clash with as many as 200 Taliban militants during a mission to set up an outpost near Wanat. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.

In the wake of their deaths, the paratroopers have become symbols of what many say is a forgotten war, prompting the U.S. military to draw up plans for putting more troops and resources into the war in Afghanistan.

U.S. soldiers killed
The Defense Department on Wednesday identified the U.S. soldiers killed Sunday when their outpost was overrun in Afghanistan.
• 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Brostrom, 24, of Aiea, Hawaii.
• Sgt. Israel Garcia, 24, of Long Beach, California.
• Cpl. Jonathan R. Ayers, 24, of Snellville, Georgia.
• Cpl. Jason M. Bogar, 25, of Seattle, Washington.
• Cpl. Jason D. Hovater, 24, of Clinton, Tennessee.
• Cpl. Matthew B. Phillips, 27, of Jasper, Georgia.
• Cpl. Pruitt A. Rainey, 22, of Haw River, North Carolina.
• Cpl. Gunnar W. Zwilling, 20, of Florissant, Missouri.
• Pfc. Sergio S. Abad, 21, of Morganfield, Kentucky.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/17/airborne.soldiers.family/index.html

Each of these mens stories are on the web site I linked. Their reasons for joining the Army were different. Their family's anger at the Bush Administration and the Military is understandably the same.

Michael Phillips, from Jasper, GA, father,
"We're torn between incredible pride and anger. We're having a difficult time reconciling that after 14 months, someone who served his country well and paid his dues, why would he be placed in such a perilous situation?" Phillips said.

The world has billions of people and yes billions believe the American Administration is a big LIAR . Those who know nothing at all in life laugh at themselves : poor ,poor little souls .

Lets not forget who the U.S supported, funded and supplied during the Afgan war to oust the Russians............?????
The Taliban.

Who did the U.S. support in the war between Iraq and Iran?????

Our good buddy Saddam Hussain

Who Did the U.S. support in Iran before the Islamic fundamentalist seized power????

The Shah of Iran


All three were/are thugs, but they were "Our Thugs"

Lets not forget who the U.S supported, funded and supplied during the Afgan war to oust the Russians............?????
The Taliban.

Who did the U.S. support in the war between Iraq and Iran?????

Our good buddy Saddam Hussain

Who Did the U.S. support in Iran before the Islamic fundamentalist seized power????

The Shah of Iran


All three were/are thugs, but they were "Our Thugs"