By Bruce B. Brugmann
The following note just popped up on my computer screen from a Guardian mother whose son, 20, is
in the army and two weeks out of basic training.
“My son just got shipped to Kuwait on his way to Iraq. Please help stop the madness.”
She was reacting to the eloquent advocacy appeal she had just gotten from John Bruhns, an army infantry sergeant for the first year of the war, writing in support of a bring-the-troops-home-immediately petition from MoveOn.org.
He said, “Within my first days there (In Iraq), I realized that so much of what I had been told–about weapons of mass destruction, connections to 9/ll) was just White House spin to sell the war.
“I’m seeing the same thing all over again now. Even with this being the bloodiest summer for U.S. troops, even with Iraqi casualties running at twice the pace of last year, and even with l5 of l8 of President Bush’s own benchmarks unmet, the White House is at it again. The’re tell us that black is white, up is down, and things in Iraq are just great thanks to the troop ‘surge.'”
The Guardian mother, John Bruhns, and former E-5 Bruce B. Brugmann (an infantryman in Korea during the Cold War) urge you to read the statement after the jump and sign the petition. The most important thing to do these terrible days is to keep the pressure on in every possible way. B3