let there be hell

I was in my CPA's office this afternoon. He's originally from Jordan. He told me about the son of a close friend of his, also from Jordan, who was just killed in Iraq. 19 years old, born and raised in America, recruited from high school by the US military.

My CPA said of the boy's father: It's like he swallowed a sword. He couldn't stop him from joining - they brainwashed him. He thought he was doing something big and wonderful. Just before he was killed, he wrote to his father: This makes no sense. I'm killing our brothers.

There were tears in my eyes as I listened. I don't believe in heaven or hell. But god, I want a hell. For Wolfowitz and Rove and Cheney and Rumsfeld. For Rice and Blair and Bush. For executives of Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellog, Brown and Root. For all the thugs and gangsters who send other people's children out to die to fill their insatiable greed.