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发帖数: 38600 | 1 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/iraq-war-vet-letter-bush-ch
https://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/
The Last Letter
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my
fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488
soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the
hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of
those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives.
I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in
2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice
care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses,
on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and
mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for
the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write
this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for
what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and
on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a
suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi
dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on
behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who
will spend their lives in unending pain and grief. | a******1
发帖数: 43 | 2 现在中国的对越老兵都忙于 上访吧。
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/iraq-war-vet-letter-bush-ch
: https://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_last_letter_20130318/
: The Last Letter
: A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
: To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
: From: Tomas Young
: I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my
: fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488
: soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the
: hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of
| h****6
发帖数: 815 | | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 4 "I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral
consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I
write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that
I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of
my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the
Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade
justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of
plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young
Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole." | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 5 "I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army
because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who
had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go
to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did
not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did
not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of
-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “
democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to
rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil
revenues." | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 "I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in
Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I
been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical
deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of
knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the
country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with
painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of
thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were
sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your
alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of
empire." | l**k
发帖数: 45267 | 7 别忘了还有中国也需要他们去liberate呢
who
of
oil
【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: "I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army
: because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who
: had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go
: to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did
: not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did
: not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of
: -mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “
: democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to
: rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil
: revenues."
| m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | | xt
发帖数: 17532 | 9 民主国家，不满意就把他们选下去。他们已经下台了。 | l*********u
发帖数: 19053 | 10 版上老将当年怎么没去iraq，埋个装洗衣粉的瓶子啥的 ：）
就知道在这儿瞎嚷嚷，不被扣美分才怪 ：）
【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: 这老兵生在福中不知福，关门，放老将
| c******k
发帖数: 8998 | | R****a
发帖数: 6858 | 12 老将呢，快出来教育这个白人老兵：敢反对民主的战争？等民主以后杀你全家！！ | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 13 Cheney got FIVE deferments during the Vietnam War.
That's right -- FIVE! |
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