Reply #95: Do you have any idea how bad it hurts to acknowledge death can be in vain?

[Solly Mack]

Do you? Because unless you've kissed your soldier spouse or child goodbye for what could be the last time to go off to an illegal invasion built on lies and deceptions, where the death rate isn't exactly low, then you don't know and never will. I do know how that feels. I do know the agony.

You think I feel this way just to "get back" at Bush and republicans? You think it makes me feel smarter or somehow better to feel this way?


I blame Bush. I blame his co-horts. But those soldiers died for nothing. They continue to die for nothing. And if anyone thinks I get one moments satisfaction for feeling that way, they have another think coming.

I AM NOT making a mistake and I'll be good and god-damned if anyone who has nothing to lose from this illegal invasion take it upon themselves to lecture me. They don't fucking walk in my shoes, they don't get to fucking judge me and blame me for what Bush has done.

Bush let those soldiers die in vain. No one else did. But they died in vain.

I'm not going to lie to myself or anyone else just to give them the warm fuzzies about a needless, senseless, death in Iraq. A death that was in vain. They didn't have to die.