God Bless America

by paradox

[Photo: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/Getty Images (Bagdhad American bombing)]

For the last 2 days images like this have been on the net while I'm supposed to be a productive worker, good father and devout husband. I've done my duty but it feels like 1,000 lbs. is on my back. Today is yet another day when I'll go forth with the full knowledge this whole war is a war crime.

What did these humans die for? What are we doing there? How on earth are we ever going to get out?

How can any of us ever look a foreigner in the eye again? How come honor, integrity, honesty and compassion have vanished from the American psyche?

All I do know for sure is that this is going to come back at us. For crimes like this American children will one day be scattered and bloody. Americans will be outraged and furious, but if they had only been outraged and furious when we committed acts like these in Iraq those American children likely never would have been killed like these humans were.