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Hosts, Alerters, please let this one go. There is a post written by an Iraqi War veteran here on DU that I think everyone needs to see.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026954898#post4
H2O Man
(73,709 posts)Extremely important.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)And not a damn thing has changed!!!
Now our crazy MIC is looking toward Russia!
Nitram
(22,971 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)Auggie
(31,240 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)mountain grammy
(26,676 posts)Thanks for the link...
blm
(113,136 posts)would have missed that reply posted afterwards.
Salute, HotzieTotzie. ; )
And LOL at "HotzieTotzie."
panader0
(25,816 posts)Martin Eden
(12,887 posts)I wanted to vomit, scream, break things, and slap the driver upside the head every time I saw one of those bumper stickers on the car or pickup truck of some flag waving patriotic armchair warrior who was all for sending our citizens in uniform to kill and be killed on the basis of lies and greed and the ambition of politicians who either didn't know or didn't care about the consequences as long as they got re-elected and their sponsors got rich.
When I marched in Washington with 100,000 other protesters a few days before Shock & Awe was launched, a small group of counter-protesters started chanting SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS.
I started chanting along with them SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME.
In very short order others joined me, and we drowned them out.
We knew it was a pack of lies and we knew it was going to be a costly fiasco, and we knew this before Congress voted in October 2002 to give the Chimperor authority to commit war crimes. To this day I refuse to support any politician who voted for the IWR.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Me neither, brother, me neither.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)You know, you got to look tough if you're going to run for President in the future.
She isn't that stupid, she knew what the truth was.
valerief
(53,235 posts)convenience store/gas station. Why? Because I know that soldier has been trained to be fucked up beyond belief, because that's what's needed to do these WARS. I know that sounds cruel, but I see the soldier as a victim of lies, perversity, and cannibalistic greed. A junkyard dog.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Its nothing but the truth. Republicans love the soldier but hate the veteran.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Hell, I don't know why most posts/threads are Alerted on. I guess some people are just quick to hit the Alert for whatever reason.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Some people are just mal-contents.
GeorgeGist
(25,327 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)I never would have seen it otherwise.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)I saw it the first time and it hit me hard.
Recommend highly.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)Many thanks LTH - so glad you're back.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)For a bump up.
Heidi
(58,237 posts)byronius
(7,413 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Kicking wherever I can for obvious reasons.