We are nothing but pawns in the hands of politicians. I got this from yahoo news;


An Iraq War veteran who
joined the U.S. Army two
days after 9/11 has
written a powerful open
letter to former President
George W. Bush and ex-
Vice President Dick Cheney
accusing them of war
crimes,
"plunder" and
"the murder of
thousands of young
Americans—my fellow
veterans—whose future
you stole."
Tomas Young, who was
shot and paralyzed during
an insurgent attack in
Sadr City in 2004, five
days into his first
deployment, penned the
letter from his Kansas City,
Mo., home, where he's
under hospice care.
"I write this letter,
my last letter, to you, Mr.
Bush and Mr.
Cheney," Young
wrote in the letter
published on
Truthdig.com . "I
write not because I think
you grasp the terrible
human and moral
consequences of your lies,
manipulation and thirst
for wealth and power. I
write this letter because,
before my own death, I
want to make it clear that
I, and hundreds of
thousands of my fellow
veterans, along with
millions of my fellow
citizens, along with
hundreds of millions more
in Iraq and the Middle
East, know fully who you
are and what you have
done. You may evade
justice but in our eyes you
are each guilty of
egregious war crimes, of
plunder and, finally, of
murder, including the
murder of thousands of
young Americans—my
fellow veterans—whose
future you stole."
The 33-year-old, who was
the subject of Phil
Donahue's 2007
documentary " Body
of War," continued:
I joined the Army two
days after the 9/11
attacks. I joined the Army
because our country had
been attacked. I wanted
to strike back at those
who had killed some
3,000 of my fellow
citizens. I did not join the
Army to go to Iraq, a
country that had no part
in the September 2001
attacks and did not pose a
threat to its neighbors,
much less to the United
States. I did not join the
Army to “liberate” Iraqis
or to shut down mythical
weapons-of-mass-
destruction facilities or to
implant what you
cynically called
“democracy” in Baghdad
and the Middle East. I did
not join the Army to
rebuild Iraq, which at the
time you told us could be
paid for by Iraq’s oil
revenues.
Young believes he was
injured fighting the
wrong war:
I would not be writing
this letter if I had been
wounded fighting in
Afghanistan against those
forces that carried out the
attacks of 9/11. Had I
been wounded there I
would still be miserable
because of my physical
deterioration and
imminent death, but I
would at least have the
comfort of knowing that
my injuries were a
consequence of my own
decision to defend the
country I love. I would
not have to lie in my bed,
my body filled with
painkillers, my life ebbing
away, and deal with the
fact that hundreds of
thousands of human
beings, including children,
including myself, were
sacrificed by you for little
more than the greed of oil
companies, for your
alliance with the oil sheiks
in Saudi Arabia, and your
insane visions of empire.
"When Tomas
Young saw President
Bush on television
speaking from the ruins of
the Twin Towers, his life
changed," his bio on
the "Body of
War" website reads.
"As his basic
training began at Ft.
Hood, he assumed that he
would be shipped off to
Afghanistan where the
terrorist camps were
based, routing out Al
Qaeda and Taliban
warriors. But soon, Bush
ordered the invasion of
Iraq."
In an interview with
Truthdig.com , Young—
who suffered an anoxic
brain injury in 2008—said
he had been
contemplating
"conventional"
suicide, but decided to go
on hospice care,
"stop feeding and
fade away."
"This way, instead
of committing the
conventional suicide and I
am out of the picture,
people have a way to
stop by or call and say
their goodbyes,"
Young said. "I felt
this was a fairer way to
treat people than to just
go out with a note."