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1,900 Dead – And The Truth We Dare Not Speak
excerpts from a column by Bob Geiger. September 19, 2005
It has become almost rote for us to say that the men and women we have lost died “fighting for our freedom” or to “keep us free.”
The truth we dare not speak is that those assertions are a lie.
They are a national balm, used to salve the ugly truth behind the deaths of these brave people who, in the ultimate act of good faith, lost their lives believing in rules that no longer seem to apply.
They are empty phrases used by those wishing they were true or by political charlatans, hoping to mask one simple truth: That our countrymen who have perished in Iraq died for absolutely nothing.
I hate saying that. When you've worn the uniform, as I have, there's a bond that's never lost with those who have served in the past and those who are in the line of fire every day in Iraq.
I want desperately for their sacrifice to be as worthwhile in reality as it is in their honorable and courageous intent. But it's simply not true.
The bipartisan 9/11 Commission and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee all formally came to the same fundamental conclusions on the subject.
They determined that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks on September 11, that they had no weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam Hussein had no links to Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda.
The official findings of our own government make it clear that we invaded another country for no reason.
You have been reading excerpts from "1,900 Dead – And The Truth We Dare Not Speak" by Bob Geiger. You can read the entire piece here: tinyurl.com/bt95w.
excerpts from a column by Bob Geiger. September 19, 2005
It has become almost rote for us to say that the men and women we have lost died “fighting for our freedom” or to “keep us free.”
The truth we dare not speak is that those assertions are a lie.
They are a national balm, used to salve the ugly truth behind the deaths of these brave people who, in the ultimate act of good faith, lost their lives believing in rules that no longer seem to apply.
They are empty phrases used by those wishing they were true or by political charlatans, hoping to mask one simple truth: That our countrymen who have perished in Iraq died for absolutely nothing.
I hate saying that. When you've worn the uniform, as I have, there's a bond that's never lost with those who have served in the past and those who are in the line of fire every day in Iraq.
I want desperately for their sacrifice to be as worthwhile in reality as it is in their honorable and courageous intent. But it's simply not true.
The bipartisan 9/11 Commission and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee all formally came to the same fundamental conclusions on the subject.
They determined that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks on September 11, that they had no weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam Hussein had no links to Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda.
The official findings of our own government make it clear that we invaded another country for no reason.
You have been reading excerpts from "1,900 Dead – And The Truth We Dare Not Speak" by Bob Geiger. You can read the entire piece here: tinyurl.com/bt95w.
