Reply #114: As a former A1C, SrA, and Sgt. in the USAF, I cannot describe the

[tom_paine]

gut-wrenching feelings that I go through when I see something like this.

Yes, ALL the deaths and maimings in this terrible and pointless invasion are painful, especially knowing that Bin Laden is free, and going to remain so.

NOTE: I have never been in combat (nor would I wish to be, but had I been called, I would have gone), the closest I ever came was being notified that if Gulf War I had dragged on for six more months, I would be reactivated.

But I am a human being, and it hits so much worse when it's "closer to home".

I remember, in the pre-Internet days, when in Gulf War I that SCUD hit the USAF chow hall, killing 200+ mostly enlisted crew chiefs, techs, and people just having some Midnight Chow.

I remember frantically calling as many of my pals who I still kept contact with, asking if there was anyone we knew, going to the library to read the national newspapers on the sticks they used to have, just looking for a damned comprehensive casualty list.

How happy I was when I finally confirmed nobody I knew had died. And the underpinning of guilty sorrow when I thought about how each one of those people were somebody's buddy, somebody's husband, wife, father, mother, son daughter, friend.

That poor, brave kid, so damned young. It is not that she died. She was a patriot and a soldier. In truth, though it scares the crap out of you, you know it's a profession like cop or fireman, that you make be called on to make the supreme sacrifice.

But that sacrifice should be for SOMETHING, and NOT to enrich the coffers of the Imperial Bush Family and their disgusting cronies! God damn their wretched tyrannical Bushevik souls to hell for what they have done.

If she had died aiding the hunt for Former? Bush Emplyoee Bin Laden, then at least it would have meant something... avenging 9-11 and helping to deter another.

But Bin Laden is free and is going to remain free, as long as the Busheviks are in charge, and this patriotic woman with her whole life ahead of her is dead for a disgusting lie. She died for the most criminal and odious enterprise to ever clamp it's vampiric teeth into the neck of America...The Bush Crime Family.

Trumad is ex-military, too, so forgive him is anger and rage at the pointless death of a fellow comrade, exposed in his perhaps insensitive thread title.