According to this article McCain is apologizing for saying that American lives were being “wasted” in Iraq. He says he meant to say “sacrificed.” And that “sacrifices” are never wasted.
Mr. John McCain and Ms. Karen Finney (the DNC (Democratic National Committee) spokeswoman) need to get their acts together. Most of the country believes that lives are, in fact, being wasted. McCain, Obama, Finney–they all knows this, and agree with it. Why do we have so many “slip-ups” that have politicians saying that lives are being wasted if it weren’t true?
Folks, it is true. It’s very true. Lives are being wasted. Thrown away. Tossed out into the fields as corpses. And it’s not just the lives of those soldiers who are being shot to death, blown up, and decapitated during this civil war–it’s the people that are left behind. Those lives are also being wasted. 3,000+ soldiers have died in Iraq thus far. Assume half are married. Add those 1,500 onto there. Assume half of those had 2 kids on average, so add another 1,500. Now we have 6,000.
Now add the 300,000,000 Americans who have to read this garbage every day. So that’s 300,006,000 lives being wasted by this stupid war and this stupid (non) controversy surrounding it.
Democrats, Republicans, lend me your ears: Stop ruining our country.
Love ya.
Comments (2)
I’d hadn’t seen that until just now. I do believe that he’d mean to say sacrificed… though believes what many of us believe about the lives people have led and ceased to lead in Iraq.
Words are words… doctored up and delivered proper, the most sincere slight against something/someone could be said in a harsh, terrible manner as well. I guess it could come down to how some people choose their means of respecting those who are gone due to this mess.
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I had a bunch of things I wanted to say in addition to this, but my mind has gone blank.
* shrug *
Hi.
I don’t know—maybe I’m just out of touch with the way things work, but if I were a soldier in the military and I were going through what those men and women are going through, I’d rather someone in Washington actually speak his or her mind, rather than have to play politics with my life.