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What Makes Bush Worry At Night?

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

By GK
-- a proud liberal and worried parent of a soldier currently in Iraq

My goodness gracious.

As the father of a soldier who is currently on active duty in Iraq, I cannot help but feel horrified and outraged about the devastating news of the two soldiers who were ambushed, beaten, and killed, evidently by an angry mob of about a dozen teenagers in Mosul on Sunday.

My son apparently was not in Mosul. I feel little sense of relief, however, since he is still in Iraq, and that it will be someone else's family who will soon have their collective world shattered beyond comprehension.

As of this writing, we are just learning the details of the tragedy (through eyewitness reports, not through official government channels). They were ambushed by gunmen while traveling from one garrison to another as they were simply stuck in traffic. It was reported that one soldier was shot underneath the chin, the other was shot in the throat. They were dragged from their vehicle. Their throats were slit. Their faces and heads were smashed with concrete blocks. One of the victims apparently had his foot severed.

This is simply the more recent and most graphic of many tragic events. We have had over 70 of our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives and friends killed this month alone.

So what has this Administration been doing about this?

- Non-stop million dollar event fund-raising
- Running campaign ads claiming that those who oppose GeeDubya are "now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists"
- Complaining about all the "good news" that doesn't get reported
- Hiding the return of the caskets carrying the remains of our soldiers as they touch U.S. soil at Dover 
- Stonewalling the investigation of 9-11
- Holding useless 30-hour debates over four extremist judicial nominees
- Firing 28,000 teachers in Iraq for affiliation with the former regime
- Cutting troops' combat pay
- Delaying medical treatment of our wounded soldiers and charging them for hospital meals

With such "Moral Clarity," is there little doubt about GeeDubya's priorities?

Helicopters and planes have been hit with SAM's, killing dozens, and leading to the coalition authority banning all commercial flights into and out of Baghdad.

Anger and violence has increased in the area. Regions that were once described as peaceful (such as around Mosul) have had attacks escalate to the point where our troops are suffering more than 30 per day. 

Iraqi Police Stations and Hospitals are being blown up. 

Our soldiers are being greeted with explosives, bullets and cement blocks, not cheers, open arms and flowers.

Despite these tragic and other incidents, our Pentagon insists that the re-building of Iraq is going well. On MSNBC, Chris "Hardball" Matthews will likely focus yet another entire hour on Michael Jackson's arrest.

We have recently learned the circumstances of a bleary-eyed GeeDubya straying from his routine of a restful night's shut-eye to strong-arm recalcitrant majority-party congressmen into voting for the Republican sponsored Medicare prescription drug bill. This makes one  wonder - does he stay up late focusing on the safety and condition of our soldiers?

He doesn't have to stay awake at night, tossing and turning, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, worrying about our children coming home alive, let alone healthy or even intact.

We parents worry about that so GeeDubya doesn't have to.

Heaven help us all.


A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY