Suporting Bush is Killing our Troops
... By all logic, Howell should have died. Howell stood a foot or two -- his left side exposed -- from a 155mm shell packed with plastic explosives when it detonated. Similar blasts will flip a truck upside down. Shrapnel shredded his legs, obliterated his left kneecap, shattered his left hand and eye socket, and blew his left eye out of his head. It broke both cheekbones and his nose, blew out his eardrums and tore through his abdomen and lower intestine. Weeks later, he emerged from a coma.
Nearly 12,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 -- but the number fails to capture the lifetime of suffering many will face. Dustin Howell would find out others are even worse off than him. "There were guys that were brain-dead," he said. "There was a guy who was shot through the temple and both eyes. There was another guy, a quadriplegic, and they were trying to get him to write. The first thing he wrote was "kill me." He kept writing it over and over." |
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Iraq War Veteran Aidan 1 - What I saw in Iraq 2 - Abu Ghraib 3 - War Makes Beasts of Men ---------------- Fayetteville 1 Stan Goff Dennis Kyne Michael McPhearson Howard Zinn rt click [save-as] | What can you do to help end the war? 1. Isn't it time to call a general strike? How much worse does it have to get before we strike? It's time to say Enough! 2. Make this unjust war the topic of conversation everywhere you go. Expose the "support the troops" hypocrisy. the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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