Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter suggests that, in response to the Fort Hood massacre, we should “pray for the families involved...” I have a better idea. Why don’t we stop electing people like George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney to positions of responsibility?
After all, they are the ones who rigged the intelligence on Iraq, rushed us into an unnecessary war, and brought our Army and Marine Corps to the breaking point. How else do you explain the fact that
soldier suicides are at record levels?
And while we are at it, we could stop electing people like Lingamfelter at the local level. It was Lingamfelter who, a few years ago, tried to have CNN banned in Prince William County for showing a soldier
being shot in Iraq.
Like George W. Bush — who banned the photographing of returning dead soldiers at Dover Air Force Base — Lingamfelter hoped to portray the Iraq war as a noble effort, rather than expose it for the
fiasco and tragedy it truly was, lest the American people turn against it.
Perhaps if CNN and the other news networks had been more aggressive in their war reporting several years ago, we wouldn’t be reading about Fort Hood today, and there would be no need to “pray for the
families involved.”
Larry Remener
Woodbridge
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