Speaking at Virginia Tech about the killings there, President Bush said: “It’s impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Mr. Bush could have said the same words about the more than 3,000 Americans killed in Iraq, but he won’t, because he’s the one who sent them there. To date, he has not attended a single military funeral. Could it be that the guilt is too much to bear?
— Catherine Ross
Asheville
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You are right. These same words could certainly apply to those Bush has sent to their deaths based upon (what is now known) to be cherry-picked ‘intelligence’. And, those same words of Bush could absolutely be used in connection with the estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the invasion of that country. Of course, they weren’t in the ‘wrong place’, but certainly the ‘wrong time’.