War Crimes

"8 soldiers die in Afghanistan helicopter crash"
"2 marines killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad"

these lines, and many many more like it, have been splashed across headlines for the past 4 years now. as the body count of dead soldiers continues to rise past 3,000...i, like many Americans have been wondering why as Bush said the mission was accomplished nearly 4 years ago. but i'm not here on a tirade of the war...that kind of talk is already plastered on every news channel and form of media possible...instead, i'm going to go on a harangue on this article on our wounded soldiers.

for those of you who actually read this blog, if you're too lazy to actually read the article, i'll give you a quick rundown before i start my rant. basically, the article speaks of the atrocities that await our wounded soldiers as they return home. most of us know walter reed medical center as the military's top-of-the-line medical facility...and for the part of saving the lives and the treatment, it is. but for its acting as a military barracks for the wounded, they fall way short of what our soldiers deserve.

its just disappointing to see that republicans and pro-war radicals are condemning the democrats and anti-war advocates for being anti-soldier. not to take all blame away from the left, as this is a governmental oversight, not just a partisan one. but the hypocrisy is found in how the cultist right has so powerfully labeled the left as soldier-hating baby-killers, yet it is their war that has left hundreds of wounded soldiers on the battlefield of recovery...as if the pain and the agony they saw, experienced, and felt in the deserts weren't enough.

investigators have found that it's the massive bureaucracy that these men and women must navigate in order to receive treatment and further instruction. now i'm no right-wing, gun-toting, anti-government bush-lover...but for some things, minimalism might just be better than the maze of government oversight.

so about the billions of billions being poured into this civil war that we're policing...the GOP defends it as needed to protect and support the soldiers on the battlefields. and though getting them the armor and medical supplies and whatnots that those appropriations are supposedly for is important and vital for their survive, lets not forget about those who have come back to live lives of phantom pain from amputations, memory loss from massive brain trauma, years of rehabilitation from broken bodies, and unending nightmares from post traumatic stress disorder. they're still on the battlegrounds, lets spend some money saving lives instead of ending them.