It all comes down to this.

(Jim Young/Reuters) “The few, the proud…the not very few at all.”

Reuters caption, emphasis mine “An honor guard holds flags to present to the families of three soldiers who died in Iraq during a group burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, September 13, 2007. Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown, Pfc. David Neil Simmons, and Pfc. Todd Andrew Singleton were members of the 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division in Fort Benning, Georgia. They were killed on April 8 when they came in contact with enemy forces using a makeshift bomb and small arms fire in Baghdad.”
 
~ we’re doing so goddamn well in Iraq that burials for our dead service men and women are on a five-month time-line.
photo credit: Jim Young/Reuters

3 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. pissed in NYC

    1

    I guess the chimp was too busy practicing his awesome Iraq speech to attend the funerals. Sending young Americans to their deaths is hard work.

    Sep 13th, 2007

  2. FranIAm

    2

    My nephew is over there. I do not want to attend a funeral. I do not want anyone to have to attend that kind of funeral. Lives have no value whatsoever when it comes to this administration and their evil machinations.

    Sep 14th, 2007

  3. pissed in NYC

    3

    I’ve already told my nephew that if they have a draft that I will send a trannie hooker to the conscription center holding a baby doll claiming that he is the father. Anything, anything to keep him out. Fortunately, he is really near-sighted. Can you imagine being happy because he has crappy sight? Things are so wrong.

    And I’m sending good wishes for your nephew, FranIAm. I hope he makes it back home unscathed.

    Sep 14th, 2007

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