TomDispatch.com posts about a Nick Turse article entitled Casualties of the Bush Administration:
Nick Turse has created the beginnings of a “wall” to quite a different legion of the fallen; in this case, the governmental casualties of Bush administration follies, those men and women who were honorable or steadfast enough in their government duties that they found themselves with little alternative but to resign in protest, quit, or simply be pushed off the cliff by cronies of this administration. Here are the first 42 names of those we thought might be put on such a wall (and brief descriptions of their fates)
One of the comments in the associated MetaFilter thread was “Heroes all. History will absolve them.” A response (and link) in the thread is quite appropriate and ironic: “Of course, that depends what kind of history we are left with.”
