What noble cause?

What noble cause?
by Amy Branham

Those three words are what motivated me to march with my friend, Cindy Sheehan, in August to Bush’s ranch.  I wanted to know what the noble cause was that has caused the deaths of so many thousands of people in this world my son included.  Bush had said in a speech that our sons and daughters were dying for a Noble Cause.   

As you all know, that so-called Noble Cause has changed over the years since the beginning of the war.  Now we are being told that we must continue the fight so that the lives of our sons and daughters will not have been wasted.  That just sickens me.  We’ll throw more people at the so-called nonexistent Noble Cause so that all the deaths will not have been in vain?  It just doesn’t make any sense. 

Since the death of my son I have pondered the reasons why he was called to active duty in the Army Reserves to go serve in Iraq.  As I have done so I have listened to the Decider in Chief in his speeches and listened to the spin from his administration and have found myself, more than once, irritated as hell.  It’s irritating to see the man who calls himself our President joke around about himself and laugh about not finding weapons of mass destruction…

Today I’m going to take a different approach from what I usually do in my writing and write about something I haven’t touched on.  In my search for the Noble Cause I have stumbled across what, for me at least, is the answer to the question. 

The Noble Cause our children died for is the fight their parents would fight they sacrificed their lives to motivate the rest of us to ask the tough questions that George Bush and his cronies do not want answered.  They sacrificed their lives to motivate us, out of our sadness and mourning, to demand of them accountability and to bring out into the light of day the corruption that has led our country to this point.  Our sons and our daughters sacrificed their lives so that we might lead the way, out of their blood sacrifice for their country, to bring our country back to where it should be and away from the path it has taken. 

Our children loved this country and dedicated their lives to it.  They swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States, a document their Commander in Chief sees as nothing more than a useless piece of paper to be trampled upon.  We, as their parents, must now continue their fight to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the rights and freedoms we have all enjoyed.

This is the Noble Cause our children died for.