by James Glaser
August 25, 2005

George Bush feels we owe something to the American men and women who died in Iraq fighting his war. George says, "We owe them something."

President Bush went on to say, "We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."

For some of those who died, the task is finished, because they died looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction. There never was any, and so that war is over.

Another group of Americans died trying to do "regime change" in Iraq. They did that, and Saddam is in jail. Still others were fighting because of the 9/11 attack, but now we know Iraq didn't do that. Those who died for that reason died in vain.

Many of those who died, died because our President taunted every potential enemy of America, when he said "bring em on." So I think George personally owes those dead Soldiers and Marines, but you can't pay a dead man.

Those Soldiers and Marines who are now dead, are gone and in the ground. There is nothing you or I, or even the President of the United States can do for them now. It is too late, they are dead.

President Bush feels if we stay in Iraq, and more and more American troops are killed, somehow that will honor those who already died. I doubt if any man or woman in the service would feel that more deaths will do anything for those who already died.

All of those troops who died are now either in heaven or hell. Nothing we do down here will change that in any way. If you are headed for hell, it doesn't matter how much honor is heaped on your memory, because you are still in hell. If you are in heaven, you need nothing from here on earth, you made it.