I’d like to see the Republican Party write a letter to “All Haythem”, explaining how much Republicans support family values. Haythem’s wife and son were shot to death, on their way back home from picking up the son’s application for dental school, by mercenaries hired by Blackwater USA, which in turn has been hired by the American government to help maintain the American military occupation of Iraq. “They destroyed my family and they killed my beloved wife, my better half. They deprived me of my eldest son who I have raised into a strong, young man,” Haythem says.
Sadly, no letter will be written. The Republican National Committee cannot write a letter to “All Haythem”, because that’s not the man’s full name. The man’s full name has been concealed by CNN in order to protect him from violent reprisals of the sort that are all too common under the American military occupation.
A set of family values that leads to the murder of a mother and son who are doing nothing more violent than thinking about dental school won’t help families in America any more than it will help families in Iraq.
(Source: CNN, October 16, 2007)
