:: Da' Militant One's Lair ::

:: Monday, November 03, 2003 ::

Except from today's column by Tim Harper of the Toronto Star:

Lynn Cutler, a Democratic strategist and former official in Bill Clinton's White House, says this is the first time in history that bodies have been brought home under cover of secrecy.

"It feels like Vietnam when Lyndon Johnson was accused of hiding the body bags ....

"This is a big government and a big Pentagon and they could have someone there to meet these bodies as they come back to the country."

But today's military doesn't even use the words "body bags" — a term in common usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 Americans died.

During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon began calling them "human remains pouches" and it now refers to them as "transfer tubes."

Transfer tubes? That's how we dignify are dead soldiers? Transfer tubes? Are the dead soldiers just material to be removed when no longer functional? Where are the honorable funerals of our brave dead soldiers? Don't we at least owe it to them to acknowledge their sacifices publicly? Who were they fighting for? They were fighting for us. George Bush has not attended a single funeral according to the "Bush Watchers". Not one personal tribute from a man who has sent them to their deaths. If they were good enough for Bush on the aircraft carrier "alive" , then surely he can stop his fund raising of tens of millions of dollars and pay proper tribute to at least one of our dead soldiers. For all of Bill Clinton's faults (I'm sure that you conservative republicans can name them all and then some), he attended public funerals of our dead soldiers. Even the lying, draft dodging, womanizer had the decency, perspective, and courage to show his face and pay tribute to the young soldiers that he sent to their deaths. That is leadership and that is what George Bush is sorely lacking.

:: DM1 11/03/2003 06:10:00 PM [+] ::
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