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)

Date Name Rank Age Branch Unit State City
11/8/2009 Scott III, Earl R. Chief Warrant Officer 24 U.S. Army 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Reg, 25th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Florida Jacksonville
4/12/2009 Anaya, Michael J. Specialist 23 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 27th Infantry Reg, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Florida Crestview
3/31/2009 Lantigua, Nelson M. Lance Corporal 20 U.S. Marine 2nd BN, 10 Marine Reg, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force Florida Miami
3/10/2009 Malone, Patrick A. Lance Corporal 21 U.S. Marine 2nd Tank BN, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force Florida Ocala
3/3/2009 Sarandrea, Jessica Y. Private 1st Class 22 U.S. Army 3rd Brigade Special Troops BN, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Miami
1/6/2009 Davis, Anthony D. Staff Sergeant 29 U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Florida Daytona Beach
######## Seitz, Joshua D. Master-at-Arms Seaman Apprentice 19 U.S. Navy Naval Security Force Florida Pensacola
######## Velasco, Marcelo R. Gunnery Sergeant 40 U.S. Marine I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, I MEF Florida Miami
10/3/2008 Setzler, Tavarus D. Private 1st Class 23 U.S. Army 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Jacksonville
9/14/2008 Dawson, Darris J. Staff Sergeant 24 U.S. Army 3rd BN, 7th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Florida Pensacola
6/26/2008 Preudhomme, Marcus W. Corporal 23 U.S. Marine 2nd BN, 3d Marines, 3rd Marine Division Florida North Miami Beach
6/11/2008 Reed, Gerard M. Sergeant 1st Class 40 U.S. Army 86th Combat Support Hospital Florida Jacksonville Beach
4/28/2008 Mathes, Marcus C. Sergeant 26 U.S. Army 94th Brigade Support BN, 4th Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division Florida Zephyrhills
4/14/2008 Huerta-Cruz, Arturo Specialist 23 U.S. Army 10th Brigade Support BN, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division Florida Clearwater
4/9/2008 Hughes, Jeremiah C. Specialist 26 U.S. Army 1st BN, 21st Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team (Stryker), 25th Infantry Division Florida Jacksonville
4/8/2008 Rosenberg, Mark E. Major 32 U.S. Army 3rd BN, 29th Field Artillery Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Florida Miami Lakes
4/6/2008 Wolfer, Stuart A. Major 36 U.S. Army 11th Battalion, 104th Division Florida Coral Springs
3/29/2008 Miller, Patrick J. Private 1st Class 23 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 16th Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Florida New Port Richey
3/28/2008 Jankowski, Charles A. Not reported yet 24 U.S. Army 3rd Brigade Troops BN, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Florida Panama City
2/14/2008 Washington, Javares J. Staff Sergeant 27 U.S. Army 6th BN, 101st Aviation Reg, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, (Air Assault) 10 Florida Pensacola
2/7/2008 Souffront, Luis A. Petty Officer 1st Class 25 U.S. Navy Naval Special Warfare Group Two Florida Miami
2/5/2008 Osmolski, John C. Sergeant 23 U.S. Army 2nd Brigade Special Troops BN, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Florida Eustis
1/27/2008 Rogers, Alan G. Major 40 U.S. Army Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division Florida Hampton
1/26/2008 Wilson, Robert J. Staff Sergeant 28 U.S. Army 1st BN, 502nd Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division Florida Boynton Beach
1/19/2008 Burress, Richard B. Specialist 25 U.S. Army 1st BN, 30th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Florida Naples
######## Tutten, Bryan J. Sergeant 33 U.S. Army 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Divi Florida St. Augustine
12/5/2007 Snyder, Adam P. Captain 26 U.S. Army 1st BN, 327th Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division Florida Fort Pierce
######## Ferrero, Marius L. Private 1st Class 23 U.S. Army 1st BN, 38th Infantry Reg, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Florida Miami
######## McCall, Daniel L. Sergeant 24 U.S. Army 1st BN, 15th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Florida Pace
######## Camacho, Anamarie Sannicolas Seaman 20 U.S. Navy U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain Florida Panama City
######## Koutroubas, Jason B. Specialist 21 U.S. Army Special Troops BN, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Dunnellon
9/29/2007 Dixon, Donnie D. Staff Sergeant 37 U.S. Army Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Miami
9/18/2007 Landry III, Joseph N. Specialist 23 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 23rd Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade, (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 2nd Infantry Division Florida Pensacola
9/18/2007 Valentine III, Donald E. Specialist 21 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 23rd Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade, (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 2nd Infantry Division Florida Orange Park
9/15/2007 Thorsen, Brandon T. Private 1st Class 22 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 12th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Trenton
9/14/2007 Mele, John Sergeant 25 U.S. Army 1st BN, 30th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Florida Bunnell
9/6/2007 Poole Jr., Christopher L. Corporal 22 U.S. Marine 3rd Assault Amphibian BN, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force Florida Mount Dora
8/24/2007 Heringes, David A. Sergeant 1st Class 36 U.S. Army 1st BN, 505th Parachute Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Florida Tampa
8/21/2007 Britt, Sandy R. Staff Sergeant 30 U.S. Army 1st BN, 325th Airborne Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Florida Apopka
8/6/2007 Neiberger, Christopher T. Specialist 22 U.S. Army 1st BN, 18th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Florida Gainesville
7/31/2007 Jairala, Alfred H. Private 1st Class 29 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 3rd Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade, (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 2nd Infantry Division Florida Hialeah
7/29/2007 Grater, Cody C. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army Brigade Support BN, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Florida Spring Hill
7/17/2007 Wade, Patrick L. Chief Petty Officer 38 U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eleven Florida Key West
7/17/2007 Bobb, Brandon K. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army 401st Military Police Company, 92nd Military Police BN, 89th Military Police Brigade Florida Orlando
7/6/2007 McRill, Robert Richard Petty Officer 1st Class 42 U.S. Navy East Coast-based SEAL team Florida Lake Placid
7/1/2007 Rossi, Jonathan M. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 12th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Safety Harbor
6/21/2007 Clifton, Karen N. Specialist 22 U.S. Army 554th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion Florida Lehigh Acres
6/21/2007 Agami, Daniel J. Private 1st Class 25 U.S. Army 1st BN, 26th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Florida Coconut Creek
6/3/2007 Surber, Robert A. Sergeant 24 U.S. Army 1st BN, 37th Field Artillery Reg, 3rd Brigade, (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 2nd Infantry Division Florida Inverness
6/3/2007 Brown, Joshua D. Private 1st Class 26 U.S. Army 1st BN, 18th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Florida Tampa
5/28/2007 Sanchez, Junior Cedeno Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army 1st BN, 38th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade, (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 2nd Infantry Division Florida Miami
5/22/2007 Rosa Jr., Alexander Specialist 22 U.S. Army 89th Military Police Brigade Florida Orlando
5/22/2007 Woodall, Julian M. Corporal 21 U.S. Marine 3rd BN, 10th Marine Reg, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force Florida Tallahassee
5/19/2007 Gilmore, Joseph A. Specialist 26 U.S. Army 1st BN, 5th Cavalry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Webster
4/27/2007 Woodall, Peter Sergeant 25 U.S. Marine 8th Engineer Support BN, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force Florida Sarasota
4/21/2007 North, Christopher M. Private 1st Class 21 U.S. Army 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Reg, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Florida Sarasota
4/4/2007 Gibson, Derek A. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Florida Eustis
3/29/2007 Polo, Joe Sergeant 24 U.S. Army 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division Florida Opalocka
2/14/2007 Cummings, Branden C. Private 1st Class 20 U.S. Army 1st BN, 12th Cavalry Reg, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Titusville
1/20/2007 McNeill, Phillip D. Sergeant 22 U.S. Army 3rd BN, 509th Infantry (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division Florida Sunrise
1/18/2007 Rechenmacher, William J. Corporal 24 U.S. Army 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division Florida Jacksonville
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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.


 

No WMDs here!
Where's those WMD's? Funny joke, Bush.


"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. - " Shameless ass kisser Chris Matthews


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