My Summer Vacation

Mr Bush is taking time off from his vacation to sell the Iraq war, a war we now fight to honor the sacrifice of those we sent to die there. Nobody seems to know or care why we went there in the first place (those "reasons" have all evaporated anyway) but now we have to stay...apparently indefinitely.

However, life is no vacation for those who have lost loved ones in Iraq:

At a low-key protest of about 100 people in Boise a few hours after the president made his remarks, Melanie House, the widow of a Navy corpsman, said, "I really don't feel like what I'm saying or doing weakens anything." Ms. House's husband, John Daniel House, was killed on Jan. 26, 2005, in a helicopter crash on the Iraq-Syrian border. That was the deadliest day for American forces in Iraq.

"I want the troops home," Ms. House said in an interview. "I want to know why they're there, and why my husband had to die, why I had to become a widow at the age of 27, and why my son had to become fatherless at the age of four weeks." As she spoke, she held her son, James Cash House, now 8 months old.....

"You were wrong about the weapons of mass destruction. You were wrong about the link between Iraq and Al Qaeda. You lied to us, and because of your lies, my son died."

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