Memorial Day

This is the post from past Memorial Day that is sadly still true. Thank you to my mother for her service, my Grandfather may he rest in peace, his father and his father for their service to the freedom of this country. And to all those who have fought for my freedom, thank you for your sacrifice.
Memorial Day

I was watching the Bridge on the River Kwai; it’s a 1957 WWII movie about some prisoner of war soldiers building a bridge for their Japanese Captures. It was one of my Grandfather’s favorite movies.

There is this scene where the head British Officer is demanding treatment that is required under the Geneva Convention that Japan signed. And the Japanese officer betrayed as the villain throws it down and says this is war, I set what is right,

“You speak to me of code? What code? The coward's code! What do you know of the soldier's code, of Bushido?”

That seems to be the arguments of the Bush Administration. That I make the rules, because the rule for Guantanamo Bay, the Rules at Abu Ghraib, in interrogations; Even though we are signatories of the Geneva Convention, and the elected Senate passed a bill expressly forbidding torture, I will torture because it is what I believe we should do.

This is so un-American, and this Memorial Day remember dangerous for our own troops. The moral high ground that we could rightly claim on the treatment of enemy combatants was the highest defense for the treatment of our captured troops. We could always say, your friends, family are being treated with the utmost respect, isn’t it best you treat us the same?

There is a reason the people who actually served in the Armed Services are so expressly against the torture of our captures.

The scene where we hold contempt for those that flout treatment of people not by the Geneva convention was presented that way for a reason. BECAUSE IT IS EVIL.

In fighting this war we must not loose the values that made us the great country that we are. Bush is claiming to be protecting our skin while destroying our soul.

And this Memorial Day I say enough is enough. My mother, (although wholly unlikely) could be captured, and I want to know she will get fair treatment. He is endangering our troops. Among a list of other actions that neglect and defame our troops, this action may prove to be the most costly in the long run and in wars of the future.

Just Remeber what the ChickenHawks did when their country needed them to serve:
Via Daily Kos

• President George W. Bush - served four years of a six years Nat'l Guard commitment, some say after daddy's friends pulled some strings to keep him out of Vietnam. The circumstances of his early separation from state-side service are still controversial (details)
  
• Karl Rove, occasional Deputy Chief of Staff and alleged full time smear artist, escaped the draft and did not serve
  
• VP Dick Cheney - several deferments, by marriage and timely fatherhood
  
• Former VP Chief of Staff I. Lewis Scooter Libby - did not serve
• Secretary of State and former NSA Condaleeza Rice - did not serve
  
• Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
  
• Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - did not serve.
  
• Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - did not serve
  
• House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
  
• Majority Whip Mitch McConnell - did not serve
  
• Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.
  
• Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - did not serve
• Rush Limbaugh - did not serve
  
• Sean Hannity - did not serve
  
• Pat Buchanan - did not serve
  
• Ann Coulter - did not serve
  
• Ralph Reed - did not serve
  
• Bill O'Reilly - did not serve
  
• Michael Savage - did not serve
  
• Bill Kristol - did not serve

Thanks to Doonsburry for Reminding us the Cost of this war:

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