Skin in the Game - Read and weep...

We all have - or had - a mother, don't we?

The 'government' of the Netherlands says it supports Bush and his criminal policies.

That makes them de jure and de facto war criminals too.

Read and weep...

Skin in the Game

By Cindy Sheehan

08/03/05 "ICH" -- -- August is 3 days old and 22 soldiers and Marines have died in Iraq already.
14 more today. All are still "Pending Notification." 14 more mothers are going to collapse on the ground screaming, or put into shocked silence for the violence done to her and her son. 14 more fathers are going to lose the better part of their hearts. Dozens of spouses, siblings, children and friends are going to be put into a tailspin of grief.

These poor, unfortunate people don't even know yet. They don't know that their lives are going to be altered, devastated, ruined, and emptied...forever. We don't know the names of these children, or their parents, yet. But we know what the parent's names aren't:

George and Laura Bush
Dick and Mrs. Cheney
Don and Mrs. Rumsfeld
Alberto and Mrs Gonzales
Condileeza Rice and un-named partner
Any Senator and his/her partner
Any Congress member and his/her partner
Etc...and on and on.

These people will get a good night's sleep, secure it the fact that one of the 14 killed today and 7 killed yesterday are not any of their children. They don't have any and will never have any "skin in the game."

I can guarantee you that there are thousands of Marine families that are worried sick to the point of being physically ill right now.

It makes me physically ill to know that our young men and women have been sent to Iraq to die for lies and greed. It makes me physically ill to know that 21 moms don't even know what is going to hit them yet. It makes me physically ill to remember the day I got the news about Casey and how I screamed until I wished I would die, too.

Tell me, my friends and colleagues, how long are we going to allow this to continue? How long will we allow families here and in Iraq to be destroyed by the evil cabal of neocons in power in our country? When will we, the 58 percent of America who want our troops home soon, raise our collective voices and DEMAND that our troops come home now? Enough is enough. When are we going to demand the liars and criminals who run our government be removed? How much killing are we going to continue to sanction by our silence.

Excuse me, I have to go puke now. May God and the angels take those darling children and all of the Iraqis killed this month into peace and may God forgive us for our apathy. May we families who already know and the ones who are about to find out find some kind of peace in our lives.

Cindy Sheehan, is a founding member of Gold Star Families For Peace [email - Scindy121@aol.com ]

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*'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC video & text - interview United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

*Corporate News Media: Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

*A question not only in the US: Who owns you? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/db3of

*Impeachbush.org is mobilizing a massive impeachment contingent at the huge September 24, 2005 anti-war March on Washington. Assemble at 12 noon at the White House. The plans of the impeachment movement - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cex28

*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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