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Day by Day we note the deaths . . .

Op Ed to The Source Weekly
Bend Oregon

Published on November 2, 2004

Day by Day  . . .

Day by day we note the deaths of one, two, three or four or more of our young men and women in Iraq. These heroic sacrifices for our country's Honor are not being reported day by day on the pages of our national media. Shame on the Press.
 
And shame on the Bush government for failing to end its mislead diversion for oil and construction profits and for political influence in the Middle East.  We need a new course that will internationalize the rebuilding of Iraq.  We need a new Plan to share the reconstruction contracts and the financial and human cost of defusing this new insurgence of fundamentalist hate.  John Kerry has this Plan and the proven ability to Lead.

--Robert Speik, formerly First Lieutenant, Armored Force, Veteran of the Korean Conflict.

 

 


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