THREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS........
And the killing and the mayhem and carnage that has become a daily occurance in Iraq, continues unabated.
On the 183rd day of Mr Bush's war with Iraq, three more American soldiers lost their lives, and three more were wounded. Three more Americans, someone's son, brother, uncle, father, nephew, friend, lover, fiancee, have had their lives terminated. Ended, in the moment of time it takes for an Iraqi resistance fighter to squeeze the trigger and send the bullet on its way.
Three more Americans who will never again see the light of day. Will never sit inside of a college classroom, and listen and take notes as some PHD professor expounds on the classical history of Greece and Rome.
Three more Americans who will never again feel the gentle squeeze of a three year old's hand; who will never again listen to the rushing waters of a high-mountain stream; who will never get to know what it means to be a part of a grandchild's life.
Three more Americans, their last drop of blood oozing out onto the burning sands of an Iraqi desert, some 10,000 miles from home. Their remaining body parts waiting to be placed in a green rubber bag, zipped up tightly and placed on a C-5A cargo plane for the ten hour flight to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
Andrews Air Force Base, just a stones throw away from the Oval Office of george bush. But mr bush will never hear the aircraft, will never see it land, will never see the bodies being unloaded from the belly of the C-5A, will never see the bodies being loaded into the black ambulances prior to their speeding off to some government morgue not too far away.
Part of the reason mr bush won't see any of this is because these procedures for transporting dead US soldiers are carried out in the middle of the night. To the government's way of thinking, they can't take a chance on bodybags being unloaded in the daytime. Some citizen or journalist might see all that and go public with it. Can't do any of that. People might start to turn against the war if they spot too many bodybags. So, its all done under the cover of darkness. All part of the overall war plan.
And just a few years into the future, the three names, along with many others, will be neatly carved just beneath the smooth surface of a piece of shiny, black granite. And the granite memorial will find its way to a choice spot somewhere on the green of the capitol grounds of Washington DC. With the memorial itself having been given some insipid name Like,"Operation Iraqi Freedom" by whomever it is in the government that is responsible for coming up with such titles.
And finally, mr bush will make his appearance in front of the names of the dead, laying a wreath at some choice spot along the base of the granite memorial.
And the beat goes on..........
czechmate
12:51:55 PM 
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