iam surprised they didnt censor this out. ^
opps.
haha …
Rumsfeld caught out once again :k:
A tale of two war widows.
**Two widows. Two wars. Two very different stories **
In the week George Bush compared Iraq to World War Two, two widows of each war tell their very different stories
05 June 2004
**Edna Glennon, 80, from Melrose in the Scottish Borders, lost her husband, Edward Bucknill, of 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, on 10 July 1944 - shortly after D-Day - on the approach to Caen **
I’d been married to Edward for two years when he was killed during the final battle on the approach to Caen. He was 22 years old.
Two days before I was informed of my husband’s death, our homes were pulverised by doodlebug bombs.
I was four months’ pregnant and I lost our expectant baby. It was while I was standing in the rubble of our home that the postman delivered the letter informing me that my husband had been killed. He never found out that I lost the baby. It was absolutely devastating. It is no exaggeration to say that it hangs over your whole life. Many of my memories from that period in my life are more painful than I care to recall. They defy all imagination.
Every year I come to Normandy to visit Eddie’s grave and it’s the highlight of my calendar. It’s a very private experience and it is very intense emotionally but it brings a great sense of calm. I am lifted away from the rest of my life because I am with the only person I have ever wanted to be with since the age of seven. The most precious belongings I have, which I always carry with me, are two framed photographs of Eddie.I would spend the rest of my life in Normandy and visit his grave every day if I could.
Today, when I read about what is going on in Iraq and the rest of the world I could get very, very angry. But it’s difficult to compare what happens in one place with what happens in another.
The difference then was that we believed in what we were doing. There was so much horror to wipe out and the instigators had to be destroyed. But I was very proud of my husband and he was proud of what he was doing too and I don’t think that anyone would have had it any differently.
**Samantha Roberts, 33, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, lost her husband Steven, who was in the 7th Armoured Division - known as the Desert Rats - when he was killed in Iraq on 24 March 2003 **
Steve was very proud of his regiment. They played a part in Normandy and he was in awe of the veterans. Watching the D-Day commemorations made me very emotional and sad, as well as incredibly proud.
I miss Steve terribly every day. I think about him all the time. He was romantic and there is a huge gap in my life which will never be filled. Steve’s death has changed me as a person. I don’t think I will ever get over it.
What has made me feel more alone is that so many people disapproved of the war and, because of the bad things happening in Iraq, people are not so sympathetic. Heroes of the Second World War died while fighting tyranny.
That is what Steven went into Iraq to do - to remove a tyrannical leader - but I do not think the threat was as intense as it was made it out to be. I think we were fooled by the British Government. I feel quite cheated. I would like to believe Steve died for a cause. It’s very hard to believe he died for nothing, but the thing that scares me more than anything is that his death may not have been justified.
Over the past year, I have begun to believe in the case for war less and less. Steve and I felt he was fighting for the right reasons but with hindsight, I am beginning to think differently.
George Bush is wrong to make a comparison between the struggles of the men in the Second World War and the present war. It is insulting to the men who were there on D-Day. He said it because everyone has sympathy and admiration for those men. But he cannot compare himself to them.
If Steve were alive today he might be quietly disappointed with the situation in Iraq although he would probably have kept that to himself.
Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=528442
British and American leaders should admit they are wrong!
Weapons of mass destruction do not exist in Iraq and it is “delusional” to think they will be found, says former chief US weapons inspector David Kay.
Mr Kay told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that British and American leaders should simply apologise and admit that they were wrong.
Mr Kay led the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq until he stepped down as head of the Iraq Survey Group in January.
He said at the time that he did not believe there had been large-scale production of chemical or biological weapons in Iraq since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.
In his latest comments, Mr Kay referred to the UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, by name.
“Anyone out there holding - as I gather Prime Minister Blair has recently said - the prospect that, in fact, the Iraq Survey Group is going to unmask actual weapons of mass destruction, are really delusional,” he said.
Mr Kay repeated his previous assertions that the US-led coalition had been mistaken in its assumption that Saddam Hussein had possessed the banned weapons.
“We simply got it wrong,” he said. “Iraq was a dangerous country, Saddam was an evil man and we are better off without him and all of that. But we were wrong in our estimation.”
British and American leaders should admit they are wrong!
Damn right they are wrong and not just about WMD`s this whole farce in Iraq is a huge blooper on part of amerikka and UK. The lies and abuses have been exposed to the whole world.
But being arrogant as the British and American governments are they will not say sorry even a fake apology is beyond them!
its not arrogance and they werent wrong cuz they never went there for WMD
Hey the rules are simple... If you have the chappal than consider it done in a heart beat. But wait... there is a contradiction here... If you have the chappal there is nothing to confess about ... A swinging chappal only makes them scream from the otherside of the world.. And thats as far they will go. So if you don't have the chappal then shutup until you get one.
Right Abdali. That makes sense.
Thanks for telling us how bad two american widows feel, but you don't need to tells about how thousands of Iraqi widows are feeling.
Atleast the american widows are living on big compensation packages, but what are the Iraqi widows surviving on after their main bread earners were killed?
So does that mean he should visit the International Criminal Court and explain the death of 50,000 Iraqis?
And maybe he can take his daddy with him too.
Well, with the Presidential elections only a few days away, I think many of us should be reminded about what Bush actually stands for and what his actual achievements were during his term as President. For many, it will be his wholesale deception of millions of Americans which stands out more than anything else!
Gore rips Bush as right-wing ideologue](http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041018-103749-4129r.htm) Washinton Times 19 Oct 04
**Former Vice President Al Gore yesterday painted the Bush administration as filled with rigid ideologues who ignore facts in order to adhere to their policies, as he sought to invigorate the Democratic base for presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. **“In every way, John Kerry and John Edwards represent an approach to government that is the opposite of the Bush-Cheney approach,” Mr. Gore said in a 90-minute speech yesterday at Georgetown University — sponsored by the political arm of the liberal group Moveon.org.
"Where Bush remains out of touch, Kerry is a proud member of the reality-based community. Where Bush will bend to his corporate backers, Kerry stands strongly with the public interest." Mr. Gore said Mr. Bush’s misguided foreign and domestic policies aren’t the result of stupidity or religious zeal, but because Mr. Bush is a right-wing ideologue unwilling to change course when facts contradict him. “I know President Bush is plenty smart, and … I’m convinced that most of the president’s frequent departures from fact-based analysis have much more to do with right-wing ideology than with the Bible,” Mr. Gore said. …
It seems the Bush bandwagon will go to any extreme in order to propogate their neo-con policies. The latest example is the use of doctored images in a Republican Ad showing US troops.
Bush Camp Admits Doctoring Ad](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/29/politics/main652304.shtml) CBS News 29 Oct 04
**A group of soldiers in the crowd was electronically copied to fill in the space where the president and the podium had been, aides say. …
“This administration has always had a problem telling the truth from Iraq to jobs to health care,” said Kerry spokesman Joe Lockhart. “The Bush campaign’s advertising has been consistently dishonest in what they say. But today, it’s been exposed for being dishonest about what we see. If they won’t tell the truth in an ad, they won’t tell the truth about anything else.” **