60 Minutes - 11 minutes - everyone of those folks who died...

[AmyStrange]

in Iraq are better than Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld, because they were on the battlefield fighting and not in an office somewhere pushing papers.

It's also what makes Kerry better than Bush in my opinion,

d

[AmyStrange]

1. Rooney: I wouldn't want to be asked what is an American...

(edited: grammar)

We come in all different stripes...

but those were Americans

(or something like that),

d

[bvar22]

6. ...and now they are all dead. "

I've been looking for Rooney's closing quote. Anyone have it?

The only quote on the site is:

"On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them. "

He also said (paraphrase): We (the USA) spend 7 times as much on WAR as we spend on education. That's wrong!

[AmyStrange]

7. Thanx...

and that's pretty well the way I remember it also (well almost but pretty darn close),

d

[4dsc]

2. I cried as the faces crossed the screen

and my outrage became more evident.. Why did AWOLbush have to kill these brave men and women of OUR armed forces.. WHY??

[AmyStrange]

4. I cried too

and I wish I had been able too shake each one of them before and tried to make them stop from going,

d

[dArKeR]

8. I was crying too! We've all learned which Prince of Darkness Bush

worships and talks to.

[PaDUer]

11. Let's HOPE this wakes up

those american people who are in denial. Am TIRED of hearing that's what happens in WAR! They forget to tell that it's for OIL and WHO benefits from this! Plus, an illegal war!

[democracyindanger]

3. So many yearbook photos

So many prom pictures.

A snapshot of a father holding a newborn.

A young woman's graduation portriat.

So many young lives.

[AmyStrange]

5. I remember the graduation portrait...

(EDITED "whiteand" to "white dress and" and graduabtion)

All in white dress and all the others and everyone different but still American,

d

[PartyPooper]

9. I will never forget those pictures.

The entire Bu$h family and Admini$tration should be forced to watch, too!

Just look at all of the American lives that were snuffed out prematurely. And, we're not even talking about the thousands of killed Iraqis...or, all of the maimed.

One viewer even wrote that he / she wasn't going to watch 60 Minutes anymore...until CBS 'got rid of' Andy Rooney...the "un-American". Ugh!

:-(

:cry:

[Cleita]

10. ...sad...

I don't want to say wasted lives...let's hope their lives weren't wasted....let's hope their lost lives bring us to a new understanding... of how we select our leaders... how much power we give them to order the sacrifice of the lives of our young people.

Shouldn't they make the first sacrifice?

[dArKeR]

12. Everyone should email CBS, tell them to post the pics on cbsnews.com!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/25/60minutes/rooney/main619533.shtml

Contact button at bottom of page.

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Andy Rooney please post the 800 dead in Iraq pics on cbsnews.com!

Thank you!

[stopbush]

13. All I could think through the tears was that * couldn't be bothered

to attend even a single funeral.

It was classy for CBS to use Barber's Adagio as background as it's become something of a mourning dirge for fallen Americans. Maybe * would have watched if they had played Toby Keith's "Proud to be an American" instead.