Ted Rall for May 19, 2008
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Transcript:
Army specialist Brandon Read was killed in Iraq. Now his parents are suing a guy who makes "Bush lied they died" t-shirts for $40 billion. Outrageous! 5 years no WMD. Bush lied. The shirts have Read's and other dead soldiers' names on them, but the parents' lawsuit isn't really just about the unauthorized use of Read's name. Between gas and video games, the $100,000 army death bonus and a triangular cloth don't go far. Not even in Tennessee. Cashing in on those t-shirt billions will be sweet! But vengeance is also a motivation. Those t-shirts killed my son as surely as if his commander-in-chief had lied us into a war and sent him in without proper equipment! Next: the t-shirt guy gets executed. Yet the payback continues! Dude... That's so wrong. The t-shirt guy's dad. He duplicated. We litigated.
