CelticBear’s Musings

Nearly every day I read Snope’s What’s New page to find out the latest urban legends and hoax e-mails. I saw today one about a supposed e-mail being sent around the brother of a former Arizona Cardinals football player who was killed serving in Iraq, a letter very critical of the administration.

It’s true.

It’s a heart wrenching criticism written by a man who served time as well in Iraq. It says so much.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601019_after_pats_birthday

“After Pat’s Birthday”

It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after.  It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military.  He spoke about the risks with signing the papers.  How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people.  How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition.  How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out.

Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is.  Something like that. …

(click here to read the rest of this letter)