The New York Review of Books: The Wars of the Texas Succession

This puts our little everyday concerns in perspective. What could happen if we get four more years of these unholy bastards? It beggars the imagination. I spoke with a couple of former students who have been "in country" and they both say that you cannot imagine the conditions they work under. One of them, a Marine, is headed in for a second tour of duty as an MP who trains Iraqi police . The other is back and spoke of his friend (yet another student of mine) who is working with helicopters in Tikrit and the Suni Triangle. "Yeah," he said, "I saw Morgen and he told me how his best buddy got blown away not ten feet from him." Some of them will come back with physical wounds, but all of them will be scarred spiritually. And do you realize that Bush has not attended a single graveside ceremony?

Perhaps I am preaching to the choir here, but I am surrounded by people in my home county who are still on Bush's side and who will probably vote for that smirking AWOL prick. They do not see the privilege that drips off the man. Yes, he is the original boss's son who is sending off my working class students to die. When they come back in body bags (transfer tubes as the military now calls them) Bush won't be there to deal with, but I will. Every family member and friend will be there. War globally, die locally.

You don't want to know how much the scumbag has cut the writing project budget down to. His cuts to the NWP along with the state cuts has hurt us bad.
I feel for you Terry. I have a friend in the Marines, doing secret things, and we don't know what's going on with him or even where he is with this stupid stuff. i worry as to how he will come back.
Carrie