Comments for Have We Been Fooled Again? at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:47:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/330-have-we-been-fooled-again.html#comment-596 BUSH COULD NOT HAVE GONE TO WAR WITHOUT THEIR SUPPORT! How easy it is for members of the House and Senate to send other Americans, many of whom have yet to celebrate their 21st birthdays,  to their possible death;  how easy to send others to war.  Three thousand dead, when compared to the fifty thousand plus  killed in Viet Nam, does not seem so horrible, as numbers go (unless one of them is your son, your daughter, your husband, your wife, or your father or mother).  Yes, the new body armor is keeping our soldiers alive, keeping our death toll down - but, the new body armor that protects vital organs does not extend to arms and legs (and testicles).  These "survivors" will, we know, have days when they question their “good fortune” at having survived death as they imagine  facing the world as single or double amputees, some having lost arms, some having lost legs, and some having lost one of each or both of each.    How easy it is to vote to send others to a foreign land where they are then ordered to kill..... men, women, and children..... deeds that will change them forever. What does "war" really mean to our representatives in their comfortable offices in Washington, these representatives of ours in the House and Senate who were duped by the president into supporting what historians will one day call  "The war that should never have been” or “The war that was the beginning of the end for America”?   The war in Iraq does not, I promise you, mean to them what it means to the American soldiers who have been sent to fight it!   For that reason I submitted the petition below and it went online at Petitionsonline.com on January 5, 2006.  Anyone over 18 anywhere in the world is eligible to sign this petition. Unfortunately, however, it is just one of many, many hundreds of petitions and is lost among petitions like the one asking WalMart not to close their fabric department.   Please read this petition and if you agree with me that it may help end the war in Iraq or may help  prevent future wars, with Iran, for instance, PLEASE SIGN IT.  If you agree that this madness, this political killing  for unknown reasons (certainly not the reasons given us, but reasons the nature of which we can only guess at) - if you believe that this madness, this senseless killing must end, PLEASE SIGN IT!  To sign this petition, go to: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tjr91943/petition.html. Thank you.  Tommye Rodrigues, 15 Merlin Path, Hendersonville, NC 28792, 828 685-0599, righton01@bellsouth.net. ******************************************************************** PETITION BUSH COULD NOT HAVE GONE TO WAR WITHOUT THEIR SUPPORT 1,000,000 Americans Seek the Support of their political leaders in carrying out wars in which they involve the United States! To:  Members, U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate: Members of the House and Senate who vote in support of wars involving the United States must themselves each serve in the infantry, in the front lines of the country where the war is taking place, for at least six months. Members will be provided basic training in the use of weaponry they will be called upon to use. Their six-month service shall be done on a rotation basis with other members so the business of government will not be disrupted.  When members of the House and Senate ask other Americans, primarily young Americans, to risk their lives and to risk being maimed, ask them to kill men, women, and children in a foreign land, then they must themselves know first hand what is entailed in the fighting of a war.  No member of the House or Senate shall be excused from this duty under any circumstances and they cannot hire replacements.  Sincerely, Your Name ****************************************************************** - Tommye Rodrigues Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:46:53 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/330-have-we-been-fooled-again.html#comment-431 Well done! I could not have said it half so well. But I have been trying anyway. What now? - Tommye Rodrigues Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:15:05 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/330-have-we-been-fooled-again.html#comment-430 I do believe you touched on every critical point in this essay. Well done! - Tommye Rodrigues Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:13:00 +0100