Video: 'Last Letter' to Bush, Cheney by Wounded Iraq War Vet Abandoning Fight to Survive

Video: ‘Last Letter’ to Bush, Cheney by Wounded Iraq War Vet Abandoning Fight to Survive

US News • March 2013 • Views: 1,508

Mandatory viewing from Democracy Now to see what an honest review of the recent past, a real honoring of soldiers’ sacrifice, and an unflinching portrayal of the destruction of the war looks like. It’s not easy. These segments focus on Tomas Young, an Iraqi veteran slowly dying of his war wounds who has decided to end his life, including his open letter to Bush and Cheney.

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4 comments

Skip Intro Fri, Mar 22, 2013 10:18:01am

The family of this poor bastard are about to get hit with a shitstorm of hate from the Jesus lovers for this. I hope they’re prepared for it.

Dark_Falcon Fri, Mar 22, 2013 8:23:30pm

Some of the opprobrium for this man’s pain ought to also be laid on Moqtada al-Sadr, since it was his Mahti Army that inflicted Tomas Young’s injuries.

palomino Sat, Mar 23, 2013 2:40:08am

re: #2 Dark_Falcon

Some of the opprobrium for this man’s pain ought to also be laid on Moqtada al-Sadr, since it was his Mahti Army that inflicted Tomas Young’s injuries.

I get that you have a reflexive tendency to mitigate any criticism of heroes Bush and Cheney regarding the Iraq War. It’s a dead ender’s mission, but you’ve chosen it and will apparently stick with the useless task of continuing to justify a war that even your party no longer cares about…just look how the GOP runs away when asked a question about Iraq—they never want to talk about it again. But here you are, still carrying their water.

Regardless, you could try not being a complete tool regarding everyone who’s suffered tremendously in Iraq.

Dark_Falcon Sat, Mar 23, 2013 6:24:47am

re: #3 palomino

I get that you have a reflexive tendency to mitigate any criticism of heroes Bush and Cheney regarding the Iraq War. It’s a dead ender’s mission, but you’ve chosen it and will apparently stick with the useless task of continuing to justify a war that even your party no longer cares about…just look how the GOP runs away when asked a question about Iraq—they never want to talk about it again. But here you are, still carrying their water.

Regardless, you could try not being a complete tool regarding everyone who’s suffered tremendously in Iraq.

That’s not ‘justification’, what I said was “place the blame as it ought to lie”. One reasonable assumption when the Iraq war was launched was that Al-Sadr’s father would act as a stabilizing influence among the Shiites. Instead, he was assassinated and his asshole son decided to ally with Iran. Muqtadā al-Ṣadr then proceeded to form a militia and mount an insurrection at the behest of a foreign power. None of these actions by the younger al-Sadr were inevitable reactions to the American presence in Iraq, and they led directly to Young’s being wounded.

I would respectfully submit that I grieve the injuries Tomas Young suffered, and if he could have decent quality of life restored to him I would demand the DoVA pay to see him given the care needed to make that happen.

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