BUSH LIED.
THESE FLORIDIANS DIED.

Dying for a Lie

"Every U.S. soldier who died in Iraq died for a lie.
They may have died for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice,
the U.S. global empire, the U.S. government,
the military-industrial complex, or Halliburton,
but none of them died for the American people or our freedoms...
Every member of Congress that continues to vote
to fund this war is complicit in these lies.
How many more dead American soldiers
and billions of dollars will it take before
Congress finally says enough is enough?"
- Laurence M. Vance

Floridians who died for the Bush Administration's lies
(current as of Thanksgiving Day 11/26/09)

The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak
Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses: who has
not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night and
when the clock counts.
They say, We were young. We have died. Remember us.
They say, We have done what we could but until it is
finished it is not done.
They say, We have given our lives but until it is
finished no one can know what our lives gave.
They say, Our deaths are not ours: they are yours: they
will mean what you make them.
They say, Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace
and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say: it is you who must say this.
They say, We leave you our deaths: give them their
meaning: given them an end to the war and a true peace: give them a victory
that ends the war and a peace afterwards: give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.
- written in 1941 by Archibald MacLeish
World War I ambulance driver, U.S. artillery officer, Librarian of Congress


And you yourself would mutter when
You took the things that once were men,
And sped them through that zone of hate
To where the dripping surgeons wait;
And wonder too if in God's sight
War ever, ever can be right.
- From "Foreword" by British ambulance driver Robert Service

"Because our sons adore their plastic missile launchers,
electronic space bazookas, neutron death-ray guns,
a decade down the pike it won't prove difficult
to trick them out in combat boots
& camouflage fatigues,
rouse them with a frenzy of parades, the heady
rhetoric of country, camaraderie & God,
the drum & bugle & the sudden
thunder of the cannon as they march
into Hell singing.
Which is the order of things.
Obedient to a fault, the people will do as they are told.
However dispirited by grief at the graves
of their fallen, the mother returns at last to her loom,
the father to his lathe,
& the inconsolable widow home to raise sons
ardent for the next imperial bloodbath"
"Memorial Day" by Steve Kowit from The First Noble Truth.
© University of Tampa Press, 2007

"I feel that my willingness to fight for this country has been used and exploited."
- US Army Sgt and Iraq War veteran John Bruhns

War is a racket, brother.

Where's those WMD's? Funny joke, Bush.