Dying Iraq War Veteran Pens ‘Last Letter’ To Bush, Cheney On War’s 10th Anniversary

HUFFINGTON POST:  Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young, then a 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., made a decision repeated by many other Americans around the country: He was going to enlist in the military in hopes of getting even with the enemies who had helped coordinate the deaths of nearly 3,000 men, women and children.

“I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.”

Young went on to attack the “cowardice” of Bush and Cheney for avoiding military service themselves, and to encourage them to “stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.” …  (more)

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  1. BUSH BABY,CHENEY, RUMSFELD ect. really should have gone to Iraq to fight the war themselves ala the 3 musketeers. Cheney has alot of BALLS getting on TV to expain to the American people how Obama is getting it all wrong. From the sneering side of his mouth no less.
    BUSH BABY seems to have firmer grasp of the truth now, as it seems like he is now in hiding.

    They pulled off the BIGGEST DEFENSE DEPT. hoax since the Vietnam war. A weapons inspector who worked in Iraq kept on going on TV before the war almost shouting…they will find nothing I know, funny how the BUSH administration didnt want to talk to him of all people but to powerful rich Iraqis who had everything to gain from a U.S. invasion.
    Boy did they make out like bandits at the expense of our brave loyal soldiers like Tomas Young and so many others.

    General Colin Powell like a good officer resisted the idea because he alone seemed to know in the BUSH BABY administration that war is hell..not a cake walk. He was of course sidelined by baby BUSH then used as a front man to sell the lies to the world. He will never live this down.

    The U.S. really needs to start taking former administrations ala the BUSH ADMINISTRATION to task when they perpetrate such type hoaxes on the American people and the world, otherwise our moral high ground is itself a hoax to be relived over and over.

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