A young officer named Seth Dvorin, 2nd Lt Dvorin is no longer with us. He was killed on 3 Feb 2004 in Iraq. His parents, siblings and wife will never be the same. Lt Dvorin's mother:
"My son died for absolutely nothing," Lt. Dvorin's mother, Sue Niederer, declared with quiet, forceful bluntness in her Hopewell Township home on Lake Baldwin Drive Friday. Ms. Niederer blames President George W. Bush personally for her son's death.
"Seth died for President Bush's personal vendetta," she said. "Bush put us where we should never have been. We're not even in a declared war."
Ms. Niederer says the growing national controversy over the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq proves that "we have a very big problem in this country. If the intelligence on which this war was based is as inefficient as it now appears to have been, there is something is seriously wrong here."
Along with the article are letters from readers of that paper. Here's one comment that will ring true forever. I hope it chokes the Neocons.
..to set the table for dinner and then slowly take one place setting away and silently put it back in the cupboard.
...to watch a young adolescent girl study her reflection in a mirror, showing her face half-burned away by enemy bombs.
...to say, "Isn't it great he has two artifical legs? He can be practically normal now!"
These things are war, long after war is done.
Those are the wounds that Americans will never accept Mssrs. Kristol and Ledeen. No one goes to war expecting the best, but never before in our history have we gone to war for CheneyBurton's Oil, or Dubya's lopsided concept of honor and vengeance either.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.16.04 at 11:36 PM
Comments:
My greatest fear when my Marine was in Iraq was that he would die for nothing. Now it's only that he will be sent back to Iraq for nothing yet again.
Afghanistan was alot easier, you could at least say he was fighting the 911 terrorist, not so with the Iraq misadventure.
There was a Sanford Dvorin who wildcatted oil/natural gas in Plano Texas several year years back. Perhaps this family is related.
Prayers for them, there are several ways those monied can help...partnership between CertifiChecks, America's hometown gift certificate resource center, the United Service Organizations (USO), the Air Force Aid Society (AFAS), Fisher House Foundation, Inc., and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) lets every American make a significant material contribution to the morale and well being of military personnel at home and across the globe. To donate, go here.
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posted by: Mr.Murder on 02.17.04 at 12:53 PM [permalink]
Breaks your heart.
I know this isn't exactly on topic, but I felt you needed to see this.
Check out what Ann "Man Hands" Coulter has been up to.
She has nerve to defend AWOL's military record by defaming, insulting, and lying about Senator Max Cleland's military service and war injuries. While our people are dying in a pointless war, in order to defend Bush's actions and (lack of) military service, she's impuning the honor of a war hero who not only was against this war but honors and respects our military being forced to fight it.
Dammit those remote detonators are either beepers or the remote charges used in offshore oil drilling...they can get a circuit board to flood those possible airwave signals on the humvees and take the damned things out...I even sent a message to a repuke subcontractor there to fix it and talked with my nephew in the guard about using those before that, he says they have one per point item like I requested him to get since... why just one, and what if the point is unable to be deployed that day? And if our rides are full of overpriced gas why do they have underpriced reinforced fiberlgass in key areas instead of steel?
Some prefer speed to strength but certain rules of engagement don't permit such. By the way their truckers (CDL required) make 170,000 a year tax free. The escort guard unit doesn't total what one trucker makes in yearly pay.
Every other country coalition of the bribed he talks with, their soldiers make from 35-250% more for equal/lower ranks and do no hot duty.
Remote charges of the Cheneyburton offshore needs to be audited this is a fucking travesty. And the army Intel unit can get some scanners or radios, hook em up to a circuit board and boost the signal to deactivate live enabled ordinance before it is a probelm for these items.
Fucking bullshit. Any of you guys with contacts still active need to get this stuff brought to attention.
Pipe bombs made with oil tubing, petroleum additives, or nitrate in diesel with electric charges trigger and the shrapnel such devices make should be addressed.Especially the m50 or a500 and structural grade pipe.
Looting may have prevented the trail, but there are some paper trails for this oil business that can still be found/audited out.
Nephew called the other day, his moring pre-deploy call chance is our nightime after news/prenightline -lateshow time... he calls a younger cous closer his age who knows his 'homies' and tells us not be worried. He is confident in his ability and at peace with God for anything beyond his control in this.
That is all we pray, right with self on the higher power's terms, and the rest will work out with awareness of self and fellow soldiers in every situation for him and his fellow soliders.
When he was home I offered to buy him flack and bulletproofs personally at the pawn shop, they still have to check them out like library books .Does Bashcroft take tabs on the check-out?
His mom sent him surplus unis/wholesale from Washington because their fatigues wear out... the downsizing has forced them to do laundry detail, etc.
If I've repeated such a rant before, please accept apoligies.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 02.17.04 at 06:46 PM [permalink]
75,000 tax free for Cheney Burton truckers, sorry, regardless fiscal and numbers cannot compare value of those who serve.
More Cheneyburton food poisoning occur? Some are working 1 meal/day from what I hear as well. Jim is deployed close to major city so he's less likely to go without , unless it is to a hot zone relief run.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 02.17.04 at 06:57 PM [permalink]
Thanks, DV, but to be frank, those stories are difficult to read. There is a lot of hurt out there. I saw a television interview with a soldier who lost his lower right leg to an IED. Only 22 years old.
The press is all hot to cover trivial events, but doesn't give the proper attention to those who have lost limbs - or a family member.
It breaks my heart - I stopped my daughter and her friends from being schmoozed by the recruiter in East Brunswick. I went in their and grabbed them and dragged them out - I am sorry for the lost American Soldiers and for the Victims of 911. Bush is a murderer and this war in Iraq is pure bullshit.
posted by: Cary Ryan Sarashetti on 03.22.04 at 12:17 PM [permalink]
beebop
posted by: joe on 03.22.04 at 03:20 PM [permalink]
