Posted on 10/04/2003 9:57:09 AM PDT by MizSterious
Speaking out
Jeri Reed doesn’t swell with pride when the war in Iraq is promoted with a Toby Keith song. Her son faces death every day and is already changing as a young Army soldier in a ‘morally wrong’ war, she said.
By Brian Brus
Jeri Reed wants her son back home. Not just because she has the same concerns any loving mother has for her child when he’s in a deadly situation daily as a target for angry personal and physical attacks in Iraq, but because the entire war “is morally wrong on many levels,” she said.“I was really concerned that they were going to have my son and all our kids go in to wage a war against the Iraqi people, and that was bad enough. … And now the risk to his own safety is growing every day because the Iraqi people, they just want to retaliate against someone, anyone,” Reed said from her home in Norman.
“The loss of life for Iraqis is so high. Our own family members are dying over there. … It’s becoming more obvious that this occupation should not have happened.”That’s what she said last Sept. 11, too, when she and other members of the group Military Families Speak Out addressed a congressional briefing on ending U.S. military involvement in Iraq.
“I’ve been pretty outspoken about my feelings about the war,” she told the Gazette, explaining that she doesn’t want her son’s last name in the news for fear of repercussions against him from within the military.
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More from the article (and any typos are mine, my apologies in advance):
"Like, they've got (singer) Toby Keith on all the time to promote it...They're not really trying to show the news; they're showing a lot of flag waving and that's it. Like it's supposed to be enough," she said.
Nationally, the networks will sometimes provide a critical perspective, Reed said, but they don't really show what's going on in Iraq...Because I keep in communication with my son and because I talk with a lot of other parents in the same situation, and I know there's areas of Iraq that are almost entirely chaos right now."
Letters from her son and conversations with other people with family members stationed in Iraq reveals to Reed that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is further undermining stability.
And the article goes on in that vein at some length. If you follow the link, there is a place to email the editor of this rag. Maybe some Freepers can provide some education for these idiots.
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