Truth Before Reconciliation
Thank You, Dennis Kucinich!
By NIRANJAN RAMAKRISHNAN

In an article in Counterpunch yesterday (Iraq War Becomes Suicidal), Saul Landau spoke of meeting a young man of 26, an Iraq veteran with shrapnel in his spine, in unceasing pain, penniless and homeless, now facing a lifetime of heroin addiction. Many of his buddies were worse off, the man said. some with brain injuries, others who had lost their eyes. Phil Donahue has produced a whole movie (Body of War) on the plight of just one American soldier, paralyzed in Iraq. There must be times when these youngsters envy comrades such as Casey Sheehan, who was spared such suffering, for he died in Iraq.

This is the true 'legacy' of George W. Bush's presidency. And yes, the legacy of us all, his accomplices willing or unwilling but never unwitting, who allowed it to happen.

Sometimes it is not how many times something is said that counts, but when, where and how. Nearly four years after re-electing George W. Bush (knowing the WMD thing was a crock, knowing of Abu Ghraib, knowing of Blackwater, knowing of wa profiteering), the American people, now paying 4 dollars for a gallon of gas (under 2 dollars before a war one of whose 'wink-wink' aims was to insure cheap oil), a mortgage collapse and a general and pervasive angst (dare one call it 'malaise'?).

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