TAMPA, Florida — He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
Four years ago almost to this day, Joseph Briseno Jr. was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range in a Baghdad marketplace. His spinal cord was shattered, and cardiac arrests stole his vision and damaged his brain.
The 24-year-old is one of the most severely injured soldiers — some think the most injured soldier — to survive.
Shot in the back of the neck, probably by one of the same Sunni insurgents that Bush and Petraeus now want to give arms to, young Joseph Briseno and his family will now live with the agony for the rest of their lives because of Bush's needless invasion.
Between 35,000 and 53,000 wounded Americans all for a lie. And those responsible for that lie, for the war that never should have happened, are still using up good oxygen?
