Monday, August 15, 2005

Meanwhile, we add more to the "It's Worth It" Pile

Look, the numbers just keep going up, and the answers from the W, Rove and Co more perfunctory. Still, we wait for answers as to why we went into Iraq. The two camps become even more painfully obvious - A) Those who want to hold the W, Rove and Co responsible and expose the lies told to get us to support the war in the first place, and B) those who don't.

Meanwhile, we toss more limbs onto the heap of W's "It's worth it" pile of individuals sacrificing while people still buy SUVs with ratings well below 20 MPG and W clears brush from his toy ranch.

Slice:
Bobby Rosendahl, a 24-year-old Army corporal (and avid golfer) from Tacoma, Wash., was literally blown into the air last March 12 when an improvised explosive device detonated beneath his Stryker armored vehicle. He remembers landing on his back, with fuel spilling all around him and insurgents firing at him from the roof of a mosque.

Ms. Olson, during an interview in Washington, D.C., where Corporal Rosendahl is being treated at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, quietly cataloged her son's wounds:

"Both of his heels and ankles were crushed. He had a compound fracture of his femur in two places. Three-quarters of his kneecap was missing. His thigh was blown away. He had many, many open wounds, which all have closed except four right now."

She paused, sighed, then went on: "His left leg was amputated three weeks after he arrived here. He's not willing to give up his right leg. He's hoping to save it. All he wants to do is golf again. But we don't know. He's had 36 surgeries so far."

1 comment:

Ken Grandlund said...

maybe someone should be collecting all these amputated limbs and stacking them up at the White House or Crawford ranch and then ask Bush if it's all still "worth it."