Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Broken Heartland: Lamentations for the Dead

I've written tens of thousands of words against the Iraq War, but never come close to the clean, plain, devastating eloquence of this piece by Missy Comley Beattie, the aunt of a soldier killed in Bush's war, writing in the Lexington Herald-Leader. This is the genuine voice of the "Heartland."

Iraq War: Tragedy of Errors