with
pleasure.
Oh yes, another reason to SkullFuck Bush.
Please, vote for John Kerry.
Because, serving your country when it would be just as easy to avoid it then lie about, is NOT a small detail.
Because, some of my best friends joined up out of patriotism or limited options, and they are fucking pissed about what's happening there.
And if you call them liars and flip-floppers, you deserve the Turd in Chief we have now.
In this quest for understanding, it turns out that Iraq veterans have much in common with their older compatriots who fought in Vietnam. Both groups were involved in a confusing counterinsurgency war conducted in an alien, hostile environment against a nonwhite enemy as elusive as he was dangerous. The result in both cases was an atrocity-producing situation -- one structured militarily and psychologically so that ordinary soldiers with no special history of violence or antisocial behavior were suddenly capable of killing or torturing civilians who were loosely designated as "the enemy."
A significant number of Vietnam veterans found meaning in opposing their war while it was in progress. The hearings on American war crimes and the throwing away of medals were their way of rejecting the war and holding not just themselves but their country accountable.
Their impact on the nation was different from that of other antiwar protesters because they were able to bring the Vietnam death scene directly to the American public, as John Kerry did in his 1971 testimony before a US Senate subcommittee, when he asked, "How we can ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
-from today's Truthout Editorial
Angelina cracks herself up.
Me too - today when I registered to vote, the Republican volunteer asked if I knew what their party platform was.
"Yes,", I said "Stick-with-me-and-you'll-be-farting-through-silk-while-the-world-goes-to hell".
The guy behind me said he'd buy that on a t-shirt.
So I told him to write it on his money.
Hey- friends?
When you're partying at Crobar, buy a soldier a drink from me, would you?
And vote for my favorite John.
edited to add- the best real-time RNC reporting besides TRUE is found at Truthout
