Wednesday, April 26, 2006

WHEN DEATH'S A SIN

To die in a war that should not have been is a sin not by the ones who died but by those who lied to put them in harm's way to make the U. S. terrorist free for those whose lives were not wasted away.

True. not everyone can shoot a gun or fly a plane or slog through mud and rain to be blown up by someone on the other side pledged to commit not just suicide but multiple premeditated murder in the first degree. Not he or she acted sinfully. The sin lies with those who improvise and theorize, who set the date and estimate how many dead it will take to break the back of Iraq or some unforeseen future enemy.

They're wardroom warriors without the will or skill to kill, who fictionalize, oh so wise, the strategy and propagandize the GIs and the folks back home to justify why it's great to be a to be a dead hero just because some brass horse's ass in the Pentagon or the White House War Room says it's so. They use maps and charts and lots of stats to prove that that's the way to go.

"Lemmee see," says the chief of theory, "to take Hill Three will be a piece of cake. It'll whittle down our troops a a bit
but it's a hit worth making if it helps bring the enemy to his knees."

"Wow! I can see it now," says the president enthusiastically. "We won the battle, only a few of ours are dead, their wounded and fatalities surpassed all expectancies."

The high-paid toadies all agreed they'd had a good session and were in need of booze to await the news of battles won. "You all are doing great," the Chief of State said. They congratulated each other and headed for the nearest bar, thinking "Oh how smart we are."

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