On so many day we see death and destruction in Iraq. Car bombs blow up children and innocent people just shopping in a market, trying to feed their families and live their lives. We hear blame and fingers pointed "the Shia are killing the Sunni", "the Sunni kill Shia" and "the Insurgents are killing our troops". Deaths in the hundreds of thousand, a generation or more scared by horrific voilence.
And in the end, who is to blame? We are. The People of the United States. We allowed our leadership to take our nation into an unprovoked War against a peoples whose leadership we disagreed. Hunreds of thousands of people are dead now solely because of our actions.
Now We look at the treatment of our injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We can blame the Bush administration and we definitly can for not planning for the influx of soldiers resulting from the war, by not funneling more of the half a trillion dollars we've spent to see that our injured, both physically and mentally, are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. Or if your a good Republican you'll point the finger a Bill Clinton which you probably could for going along with the military's Industrial Complex's efforts to profitize military spending.
But in the end we can only blame ourselves. We all knew our veterians were not treated well. Even as we have learned more about the effects of Post traumatic Stress no effort was made to reach back and help those Homeless Vietnam Vets we walk past on the street of our country.
We support our troops when we need them to kill but not when they need us most.
And in the end, who is to blame? We are. The People of the United States. We allowed our leadership to take our nation into an unprovoked War against a peoples whose leadership we disagreed. Hunreds of thousands of people are dead now solely because of our actions.
Now We look at the treatment of our injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We can blame the Bush administration and we definitly can for not planning for the influx of soldiers resulting from the war, by not funneling more of the half a trillion dollars we've spent to see that our injured, both physically and mentally, are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. Or if your a good Republican you'll point the finger a Bill Clinton which you probably could for going along with the military's Industrial Complex's efforts to profitize military spending.
But in the end we can only blame ourselves. We all knew our veterians were not treated well. Even as we have learned more about the effects of Post traumatic Stress no effort was made to reach back and help those Homeless Vietnam Vets we walk past on the street of our country.
We support our troops when we need them to kill but not when they need us most.
