Here's an excerpt from a speech Bush gave yesterday:
It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone -- and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates, and a grieving nation.What is Bush talking about? The VA student shootings. In no way do I mean to diminish the horror of that event--we're all shocked, and that shock and anger transcends politics. But we should not let these events suspend the fact that horrors like these occur in Iraq everyday. Bush's statement applies perfectly to the daily horror that is Iraq. Not only that, but everyday these events occur, we are culpable, insofar as in democracy, a government purportedly represents the will of the people (and although we're far from a true democracy, we're still culpable in our relative laxity on the issue).
We need Bush--or someone from the American leadership, I truly don't care who, Republican or Democrat, all I want is someone to admit our role in Iraqi's suffering--that such events occur everyday there. Senseless violence. People simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bush admitted it when it came to a university. Now he needs to admit it when it pertains to a whole nation. America has been shocked at a single day of random horror--terror in its truest sense--now we need to admit that this terror is daily life for the Iraqi people, the vast majority of whom are innocents, and thus "It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone -- and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates, and a grieving nation."
