The lie that killed my son

[dArKeR]

By Emma Brockes
THE GUARDIAN , London

Two years ago, if you had asked Lila Lipscomb what she stood for, she would have referred you to the flag in her garden and her four grown-up children. Her priorities were, in descending order of importance, family, faith, country and a place where all three met that she might have called "service": two of her children were in the military and she worked in the public sector, at an employment agency designed to get people off welfare.

She is, as she puts it, "an extremely strong woman. And I've raised my daughters to understand that they come from a long line of strong, independent women. So the men in our lives have to be very unique. Hence Pops."

Pops is her husband, Howard, an autoworker. He accompanied Lipscomb to London recently by way of moral support and sits across from her in the hotel suite, eyes brimming. What she is saying is not easy for either of them.

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Illustration of death none of which are elected officials' children:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/photo/2004/07/22/2003139897

[Miss Authoritiva]

1. Mrs. Lipscomb, you are a brave woman.

But all the potential Mrs. Lipscombs in America should ask themselves this before they let their kids go off to wars of folly: Why are Barbara and Jena Bush not in the armed forces? Why are no Cheney kids in the armed forces? Ask yourself why the only offspring of high-ranking administration officials who are in Iraq are there as part of delegations making money by handing out lucrative contracts.

If you think this is okay, then you've just admitted that your children's lives are worth less than those of Barbara and Jena and all the other Republicans' kids.