Stop-Loss

I saw this movie a couple of months ago. If you haven’t seen it, you should.

I mention it now because I just finished watching the latest episode of Saving Grace, a TNT summer series now in its second season. (Spoiler alert) We spend most of this episode waiting to find out if Detective Ham Dewey’s brother, who has been sent to Afghanistan, is dead or alive. In the final moments, we learn he is dead. And throughout the episode we watch the devastation this wreaks on the Detective and his older brother.

Both strike me hard with that conviction: we have failed. They are at war, dying and killing, killing and dying, and we have failed because they are still at war, dying and killing. We let them go. We let Bush and Hailliburton have their war, and now my generation is at war, dying and killing, killing and dying.

It seems like no matter what I have done to protest this, no matter what I felt. It is not enough. It can never be enough until it is over, and I feel so powerless to bring it to an end.

In the meantime, I want to say
Dear George Bush,

What about the women and men who are dying in the name of your lies? Do you know what you have done? How many you have murdered? You lied, people died, people are dying. You ought to go to prison, but you won’t. I can only hope that there is a hell so that you can burn in it. I have never wished that on anyone, but I wish it on you.

and

Dear Stephen Harper,

There are women and men here in Canada who said no to the President who would make them murderers. What does it say about you and your nation that you would send them home to be imprisoned for showing the greatest moral sensibilities? What does it say about your government that you would deny majority opinion and refuse them a place here?

To you sorry pieces of crap who call yourself President and Prime Minister: where is your moral compass? Your human sensibility?

And to Barack Obama: Please. Support our troops. Bring ALL of them home.