The Veterans' Cemetery at Ft. Riley, Kansas
The war in Iraq goes on.
Reuters:
A Kansas military cemetery has run out of space after the burial of another casualty of the Iraq war, officials said on Thursday.
"We are full," said Alison Kohler, spokeswoman for the Fort Riley U.S. Army post, home of the 1st Infantry Division.
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Fort Riley can bury bodies on top of other bodies if family members want to share a plot, said Kohler
The bodies of war dead are literally piling up. Kansas Republican Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts wrote a letter to the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, asking for a new cemetery.
"While a new cemetery would not be completed in time to alleviate this situation immediately, it is vitally important," they wrote. "We truly owe our military members a debt of gratitude and the least we can do is provide them with an honorable burial ground."
Their concern is touching. Or, at least, it would be if it weren't so damned empty. While they say that getting a new graveyard is the "least we can do," Brownback and Roberts seem intent on keeping it at "the least we can do." Doing the most they can is totally out of the question.
The same day that story broke, Brownback and Roberts -- along with every single Republican senator and way too many dems -- voted to wag the collective senatorial finger at MoveOn.org for a NYT ad that asked if Gen. David Petraeus might "betray us." This was a non-binding, completely political resolution, meant to pump up a "scandal" that isn't really going anywhere -- except on right wing talk radio and FOX News. The average american probably couldn't care less and a lot of them probably agree with MoveOn.org...
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