Enlisting the Dead and Wounded
Is this the new surge that Bush has in mind?
The Army on Saturday blamed a computer mix-up for recruitment letters mistakenly sent out over the holidays to the families of 275 officers killed or wounded in action in Iraq.
"Every Army leader is just sick that this happened," said Gen. Richard Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff. "This is an inexcusable mistake. Five years into this war, the Army can do better than this -- and we will."
Senior Army leaders were frustrated and disappointed by their blunder, Cody said. The Army used the wrong database, he said, when it generated a mass-mailing of letters between Christmas and New Year's Day to more than 5,100 Army officers who recently had left the service.
Included were letters to 75 officers killed in action -- more than one-third of all Army officers who have died in Iraq since the war began -- and 200 more wounded in action.
The letters encourage the officers to consider returning to active duty.
Coming from a government that would tax the dead if they could, it doesn't surprise me one bit.
This proves, however, that the government really doesn't give a shit about those who fight and die for the so-called cause.
To them, each one of us is just another number.
How surreal does it get ? If this incredibly ironic post were to find mainstream currency, it might very well serve as a "surge suppressor". And if that didn't work, howzabout a 100,000 volt surge through some of these neocon goons while they fry in the chair ?
But, Americans don't seem to care - they appear to be brain dead before they are ever dead and buried.
I do agree, however, Bush and his cronies could use a few hundred thousand volts. Though, a good old fashioned noose would do fine.
I believe it already. If I wasn't too braindead to pop the link you provided, I might have known.