03.24.08

4000 For What? (Psycho Haiku By Javier Hernandez-Miyares)

Posted in Uncategorized, Psycho Haiku, Javier Hernandez-Miyares at 11:29 pm by mbumba

Rotting In A Bog

Forgetting We Were Soldiers

Four Thousand For What?

Psucho Haiku by JHM

From AOL News:

A roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four U.S. soldiers Sunday night, pushing the death toll to 4,000.

That number pales compared with those of other lengthy U.S. wars, but it is much higher than many Americans, including Bush, ever expected after the swift U.S. invasion of Iraq five years ago.

Bush proclaimed the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May 2003. Almost all of the U.S. deaths there have happened since then.

“One day people will look back at this moment in history and say, ‘Thank God there were courageous people willing to serve, because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come,’” Bush said after a State Department briefing about long-term diplomacy efforts.

“I have vowed in the past, and I will vow so long as I’m president, to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain — that, in fact, there is an outcome that will merit the sacrifice,” Bush said.

The news of 4,000 dead in Iraq came the week after the war rolled into its sixth year, dominating most of Bush’s presidency. Almost 30,000 U.S. service members have been wounded in the war.

Tags: 4000 Dead, Iraq War, United States Casualties, For What, Psycho Haiku, Javier Hernandez-Miyares

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