"I think we are winning. Okay? I think we're
definitely winning. I think we've been winning for some time." - Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the Iraq War 04/26/05.
"I just wonder if they will ever
tell us the truth." - Harold Casey, Louisville, KY, October
2004.
This is a moving and disturbing story about a professor from West Point who committed suicide in Iraq:
A Journey That Ended in Anguish: Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions by T. Christian Miller Los Angeles Times 11/27/05.
This comment was found in a note he had written shortly before his death:
I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. Death before being dishonored any more.
Miller writes of that note:
A note found in his trailer seemed to offer clues. Written in what the Army determined was his handwriting, the colonel appeared to be struggling with a final question.
How is honor possible in a war like the one in Iraq?
"Wars are easy to get into, but hard as hell to get out of." - George McGovern and Jim McGovern 06/06/05
1 comment:
Can only imagine what he expierenced, first hand, that drove him to his death. Scary, huh? rich
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