Here is the Reddit link of someone describing his cousin’s injuries, with a picture of the actor Gary Sinise, who played Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump.

This hit me hard when I saw it on the same day I saw Rachel Maddow’s expose on MSNBC titled Why We Did It, which speculates that we invaded Iraq for Oil, and supplies evidence and interviews to support that claim.

Thousands of American soldiers went to the Middle East and never came back. Tens of thousands of Americans came home severely injured in body and mind. Those men and women, when they get up every day, for the rest of their lives, have to deal with this fact.

There were no weapons of mass destruction. That was fabricated. There was oil. A fossil fuel for which the prime has passed. That’s what their sacrifice appears to have been for.

It was all about the wealth of the oil barons, including Dick Cheney.

I am sadden by this realization.

Check out Rachel Maddow’s argument: