The Cost of War at Walter Reed

By Stewart Nusbaumer, editor of Intervention Magazine. You've got to read the whole thing, but here's a little excerpt:

The World Series of baseball should have been cancelled in 1967, as it should be cancelled today, because America has young men fighting in a war.

But Americans are barely paying attention and would refuse to give substance to their patriotism, a clear indication this is not a war for the defense of America. We have an administration that won't fully fund veterans' health care, while it does not properly equip our troops in war. And we are a people not insisting our veterans have adequate health care and our soldiers have proper equipment. This is wrong, America. Wrong to those with "road kill" legs, wrong to those with partial faces, wrong to those with missing limbs.

I've had numerous discussions with people who have supported this war all along, some who still do, and even a few people who I would consider to be chickenhawks. None of them -- not one -- has been able to come up with an answer to the most basic of questions about this war: Why? I've phrased it many ways, trying to accommodate the administration's shifting justification for their war. Why did we go to war with Iraq? Where is this noble cause that Bush wants us to believe in? Where are the WMD? Osama? Where are the flowers the Iraqis were supposed to greet our troops with? Where is this great Iraqi democracy? Where is this oil that's supposed to pay for the rebuilding? Where is our moral authority? Where is the "mission accomplished"?

Not one has been able to come up with an answer. And yet, men and women continue to die, fall and suffer.

I think that may be one of the saddest things ever.