A Soldier's View

While the right-wing spin machine headlined by the likes of O'Reilly and Malkin jabber on defaming Cindy Sheehan, this soldier tells us exactly what it is like in Iraq and shows his support for Bush, with his silence. "We're driving down this road and there's this tiny bridge over a little canal," he says. "They had rigged up this bomb and they had a tripwire running across the bridge and we hit it and it blew up." [SNIP] I started patting myself down and that's when I noticed that my face took some shrapnel," he says. "It was all swollen on this side, so when I'm patting myself down, my middle finger went, like, this deep into my cheek where the shrapnel went in." He points to a spot about halfway down his finger, showing how far it went into the shrapnel wound behind his right eye, which is still pretty much blind, unable to see anything but bright light. "Then I started checking out my leg. I knew my femur was broken, but at that time I didn't know my calf was missing," he says. [SNIP] One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined. "I don't want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason -- just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn't be losing people -- at least not at this rate. So I think he himself is responsible for quite a few American deaths." I would hope Malkin, O'Rielly and the rest of the chickenhawks read this heartbreaking account of this soldier's story, and then tell us they have the right to speak for Cindy or anyone else who has given so much to this country. And you do this in the safety and comfort of your own little world where Bush is god and all is right with the world. Sign up and go over there and do the fighting yourselves' you damn hypocrites then tell us how wonderful life is under King George's rule.