Will Bush visit the "convocation" for these young men and women?
posted by
Wally
7:11 AM
Yesterday a tragedy happened at the Virginia Tech University. Bush made his appearance and said some touching words to support the friends and families of the fallen. Ironically, and unmentioned by the President or the press, even worse violence than this is faced every day by our young men and women overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just because they couldn't afford to go to college, opting instead to serve their country in the military, it doesn't make the violence they face any less tragic. Putting on a uniform doesn't make it any easier to die, or to watch your friends die around you. Yet that is what they deal with every day - at an increasing pace.Over the past six months, U.S. troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate of the war, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.
From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four consecutive months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with at least 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
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George Bush found time to attend the convocation at VA tech. When will he similarly honor even one soldier who has died in his war? When will he show the same compassion for those who have fallen under his command, in uniform, far away from home and family?
What happened at VA Tech was horrible. What is happening in Iraq is also horrible. Ignoring it doesn't make it any less so.
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