Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Veteran's Voice Quote of the Day
"Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage." -- an excerpt from a letter sent by paralyzed Iraq War veteran Tomas Young to Dumbya and Dick "The Dick" Cheney on the 10th anniversary of the invasion. Young is in hospice care and is dying from his wounds. His entire letter should be read on every broadcast, if only to counter the historic revisionism underway by the neocons who lied us into Iraq.