Your mileage may vary, but statements like "I would vote for Saddam Hussein before I would vote for Bush." and "It's an atrocity!" push any validity right off into the margin.
I've lost friends and family over the years as well, both in and out of wartime. It's the way the world turns.
I know what it is like to bury a son who died suddenly, after being the day before a young man of promise and achievement. It puts a hole in your heart that will never heal. But some people become unhinged, and unable to function in the real world after such a loss.
That seems to be what has happened to the Willets. So I have a certain level of sympathy for them, though I think the conclusions they have reached are just plain stupid.
On the other hand, I spit on the reporter for Reuters who quoted these pathetic people as if they in any way represented the tens of thousands of families who have lost sons and daughters, or seen them injured or crippled, on 9/11 and in the war that has followed. And I also spit on all the other reporters (and their editors) who have carried and promoted this story since Reuters first "reported" it.
These are not reporters. These are ghouls. Don Henley captured their type in his song, "Dirty Laundry." "Get the widow on the set / The boys in the newsroom have a running bet / Is the head dead yet? / We need dirty laundry."
Congressman Billybob
That they care so little for the lives of the Iraqi's freed from torment and torture is a disgrace to the memories of the innocent victims of 9/11
Shame on them.