Wednesday, November 12, 2003
The Names They Still Won't Mention
In Newsday, legendary New York columnist Jimmy Breslin writes of soldiers who have died in Iraq, soldiers whose names we never hear--but soldiers whose names Breslin lists, those killed between October 20 and November 8. Of one dead soldier, killed while guarding a bank, Breslin says: "He was guarding God. The money that is the true religion of Bush and Cheney and the others who hide in offices while young men in the Army die."
Eloquent and damning.
If this war's dead are anonymous, the wounded are even more so. Bush's great preeemptive war has produced nearly 7,500 wounded Americans, kids in their 20s who get the same kind of wounds warfare has always produced--limbs torn off, eyeballs shot out, disfiguring burns. Esther Schrader of the Los Angeles Times dared to look for them.
In Newsday, legendary New York columnist Jimmy Breslin writes of soldiers who have died in Iraq, soldiers whose names we never hear--but soldiers whose names Breslin lists, those killed between October 20 and November 8. Of one dead soldier, killed while guarding a bank, Breslin says: "He was guarding God. The money that is the true religion of Bush and Cheney and the others who hide in offices while young men in the Army die."
Eloquent and damning.
If this war's dead are anonymous, the wounded are even more so. Bush's great preeemptive war has produced nearly 7,500 wounded Americans, kids in their 20s who get the same kind of wounds warfare has always produced--limbs torn off, eyeballs shot out, disfiguring burns. Esther Schrader of the Los Angeles Times dared to look for them.
