Crocodile tears from YDR
Why didn't the YDR editorial on Zach Clouser’s death mention that Zach was in Iraq for his 13th month? That if it wasn't for Stop-Loss, Zach would have been home in June, missing his appointment with the IED that took his 19-year life? Why didn’t it say that protective equipment exists, but won’t reach troops for several years?
Todd Platts and like-minded politicans aren't worthy of cradling soldiers' lives in their hands. Their hands flow red with the blood of every fallen soldier with their unwavering votes to continue this immoral war while doing nothing of consequence to alleviate troop and equipment shortages.
Troops recruited too young to understand they’ve been hijacked into extra years and extra tours.
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Adequate equipment so my 23-year-old son, soon returning for another tour, won’t have to salvage metal from a Kuwaiti dump to armor his war-bound vehicle as he did in 2004?
Though diametrically opposed to withdrawal, such politicians haven’t the courage of their convictions when it involves risking an election. No one in Congress has the guts to utter the dreaded "D" word for fear of offending voters and risk losing a cushy taxpayer-funded job (paying, incidentally, 7-10 times a soldier’s salary).
Lucrative incentives to increase volunteer enlistment? The Whitehouse recently "strongly opposed" a 3 1/2 percent cost-of-living raise and cut benefits in the 2008 Defense Bill.
If the Daily Record truly wants to achieve something positive for our troops, their families and America, they would get off the fence, quit kissing Todd Platts' behind, and write a blistering editorial urging our congressman to do the RIGHT thing for our troops.
Perhaps then, editors would never again have to write a tearjerk editorial about the mothers, widows and orphans of York County’s war dead.
Linda Rogers
Fairview Township
I work with MoveOn.org Political Action to urge a speedy and safe return of our soldiers from this war. It makes a difference.