God Damn Those People
Who frivolously send young men off to go through things like this.
I realize it's an imperfect world, and that soldiers go to war and get maimed and killed. That's tragic enough as is. But when you think that the people in charge, who have not only never been near a FEBA, but also assiduously avoided service in their youths, gleefully send young men and women off to go through the utter fucking hell that is infantry combat, it makes me want to cry and puke and scream.
The total fucking lack of concern and responsibility by this administration for the soldiers, sailors, and Marines that serve this country is a shame, a disgrace, and a crime. When you have the very lives of other men and women in your hands, and you cannot act with anything other than diffidence, disdain, and occasionally outright contempt, you are a soulless, useless human being.
Of course, we knew that Bush had no regard for the living long ago. This is the man who mocked a woman named Karla Faye Tucker. She was a convicted murderer, it's true. As is often the case in Texas, she was sentenced to death for her crime. However, she claims that (like Bush himself) she later found Jesus and repented. I am not a fan of capital punishment; nor am I a believer in Christ. However, capital punishment is the law in Texas, and, according to the laws of that state, her conviction, and her sentence, she deserved that penalty. Also, according to her faith, and according to basic dictates of humanity, she deserved decent treatment. Remember "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me," do you?
Bush doesn't. He sent her to the execution chamber in Texas after publicly scorning her. The man couldn't even let a fellow Christian die with the barest shred of dignity. This from the tireless "pro-life" crusader.
Who frivolously send young men off to go through things like this.
I realize it's an imperfect world, and that soldiers go to war and get maimed and killed. That's tragic enough as is. But when you think that the people in charge, who have not only never been near a FEBA, but also assiduously avoided service in their youths, gleefully send young men and women off to go through the utter fucking hell that is infantry combat, it makes me want to cry and puke and scream.
The total fucking lack of concern and responsibility by this administration for the soldiers, sailors, and Marines that serve this country is a shame, a disgrace, and a crime. When you have the very lives of other men and women in your hands, and you cannot act with anything other than diffidence, disdain, and occasionally outright contempt, you are a soulless, useless human being.
Of course, we knew that Bush had no regard for the living long ago. This is the man who mocked a woman named Karla Faye Tucker. She was a convicted murderer, it's true. As is often the case in Texas, she was sentenced to death for her crime. However, she claims that (like Bush himself) she later found Jesus and repented. I am not a fan of capital punishment; nor am I a believer in Christ. However, capital punishment is the law in Texas, and, according to the laws of that state, her conviction, and her sentence, she deserved that penalty. Also, according to her faith, and according to basic dictates of humanity, she deserved decent treatment. Remember "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me," do you?
Bush doesn't. He sent her to the execution chamber in Texas after publicly scorning her. The man couldn't even let a fellow Christian die with the barest shred of dignity. This from the tireless "pro-life" crusader.
posted by Jude at 10:32 PM
