John McCain made a visit to the Cleveland Clinic yesterday. From my perch up on the ninth floor, I could see snipers on the roofs of a couple buildings, the bomb squad trucks below on the street near the hotel, police and other security personnel scurrying around and between buildings, and protesters on the sidewalk in front of the Inter-Continental Hotel.
Even though the media no longer seem to be interested in reporting the mounting death toll, which increased in April, the highest monthly death toll since September of last year, the war keeps going and going and going.
If McCain is elected in the fall, we know that we will, for at least four more years, get a bigger and bigger bill and, more importantly, more of this, that is, the dead, from the month of April:
* Staff Sgt. Travis L. Griffin * Capt. Ulises Burgos-Cruz * Spc. Matthew T. Morris * Not named pending notification of next-of-kin * Staff Sgt. Emanuel Pickett * Pfc. Shane D. Penley * Maj. Stuart A. Wolfer * Not named pending notification of next-of-kin * Spc. Jason C. Kazarick * Sgt. Michael T. Lilly * Sgt. Timothy M. Smith * Sgt. Richard A. Vaughn * Maj. Mark E. Rosenberg * Staff Sgt. Jeffery L. Hartley * Spc. Jeremiah C. Hughes * Not named pending notification of next-of-kin * Sgt. Shaun P. Tousha * Spc. Jacob J. Fairbanks * Tech. Sgt Anthony L. Capra * Sgt. Jesse A. Ault * Sgt. Merlin German * Spc. William E. Allmon * Sgt. Joseph A. Richard III * Cpl. Richard J. Nelson * Lance Cpl. Dean D. Opicka * Spc. Arturo Huerta-Cruz * Staff Sgt. Jason L. Brown * Spc. Lance O. Eakes * Spc. Benjamin K. Brosh * Petty Officer 1st Class Cherie L. Morton * Spc. Steven J. Christofferson * Sgt. Adam J. Kohlhaas * 1st Lt. Matthew R. Vandergrift * Airman Apprentice Adrian M. Campos * Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter * Cpl. Jonathan T. Yale * Pvt. Ronald R. Harrison * Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Blystone * Pfc. John T. Bishop * 1st Lt. Timothy W. Cunningham * Staff Sgt. Shaun J. Whitehead * Pfc. William T. Dix * Spc. David P. McCormick * Pfc. Adam L. Marion * Sgt. Marcus C. Mathes * Sgt. Mark A. Stone * Staff Sgt. Bryan E. Bolander * Staff Sgt. Clay A. Craig * Not named pending notification of next-of-kin * Not named pending notification of next-of-kin * Cpt. Andrew. R. Pearson * Spc. Ronald J. Tucker
Posted by Bill at May 2, 2008 08:21 PMOK.
I admit that I am a bad bad BAD blogging friend.
Not only do I NOT BOG REGULARLY.
I also do not read regularly.
So after our exchanges tonight on text messaging I thought I should buck up and like a good friend, get my ass over here.
And the first thing I see is John McCain. And the second thing is I want to throw up in my mouth.
But I don't because you and I agree on our views of JM.
And all I can think is you need to fly your asses to MN for a vacation! YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! lol
Posted by: KathyHowe at May 3, 2008 12:17 AM