Salon has the story of the parents of another fallen soldier challenging Bush. Their message? The status quo of ignoring the facts and pretending things are hunky dory in Iraq is unacceptable. They reasonably say the soldiers should be pulled out immediately or reinforced with a major new influx of boots on the ground.
"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said Tuesday.23 year old Edward was one of those soldiers from Ohio, the ones celebrated and mourned at a service attended by thousands, one of the soldiers Bush couldn't be bothered to mourn himself in person or even send a representative. Nice.
