ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL NATION

“On behalf of a grateful nation” are not the words spoken by the actions of the Bush Administration considering the condition of its felled and injured troops now languishing in their post Iraq experience. How easy it is to send troops to war when you see them as mere commodities, and how much easier it is to ignore them when they limp home in need of compassion and care.

How indicative it is of the Bush White House to send gullible young people into a war that the very few appreciate or understand and then wish them into non-existence when their hurts are no longer convenient and when they can no longer serve the greedy war machine.

It is always the injured and the neglected that pay the price for thoughtlessness.