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It is so scary
Everyone here is making some good points, and the post is great, but I still get that sick feeling when I read or think about the Bush administration. What's to become of us? The First Amendment goes too far?? I heard on a radio report the other day that a large percentage of high school students surveyed believe newspapers should not print anything the government does not want them to. We have to keep fighting it.
posted by
Witchflower
on February 3, 2005 at 7:49 AM
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the difference between iraq and nam
LBJ went to Congress for approval of action (after, of course, he basically misled them [at least two were courageous enough to vote against the resolution {bay of something}])
Bush just went -- wait a minute, Bush didn't go, he sent. You know, that could a good Dr. Seuss type of poem.
It could be said that to war Bush went,
But wait a minute, Bush didn't go, he sent.
He didn't go during Vietnam but he wants others to go and die now.
The interesting thing is that we have more opposition outright to this war than we did to Vietnam -- and probably more than during the height of VN protest -- but it's not reported by our supposedly liberal media. And those that speak out are pretty well castigated and labelled as unpatriotic and booed, etc.
Although there's a lot of opposition, it would appear there's very little. Visibility of the opposition seems almost nil. Like with me, I'm virtually paranoid that if I were to become involved I could very well be a target much as many people are now targets. I feel that the CIA, FBI and Homeland Security would be at my doorstep at any minute.
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And most people would accept that. On CNN, the results of a recent poll show that about 65% of those polled believe that the First Amendment goes too far in protecting people's rights.
Scary isn't it?
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 31, 2005 at 10:23 AM
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In Some Ways Worse Treatment Than Vietnam Era Vets
It is a amazing to see the lies that the public will swallow -- hardly a peep in response to the administration's admission that there really were no weapons of mass destruction (although this war is a weapon of mass distraction from a faultering global economy).
I do think, however, that the administration (although not the public) is treating veterans worse than the Vietnam vets -- through backdoor drafts, closing down VA hospitals, and cutting veterans' pay --
and also by concealing the human cost of the war by not having the decentcy to attend memorials of the war dead or allow photograpy of the flag-draped coffins.
posted by
writersjourney
on January 30, 2005 at 11:55 PM
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SpitFire
Iraq and Nam are way too similar. But that just shows that we knew better and Bush should never have been allowed to use the country as he did. He out right lied to us and took us to war because he wanted to, not because it was what was best for the country.
Also, one big difference between Nam and now is that we are not going to treat our service men the same way they were treated back then. We have at least grown in that area and we now see that they are doing their duty and that it really is those in power who should be seen as the wrong doers. The service men and women are just victims of Bush's sick little game.
posted by
kooka_lives
on January 29, 2005 at 7:48 PM
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Kooka, Axel did write some
great songs and that is one of them. Unfortunately, this war is a second Vietnam and I don't see any end to it. Ever.
posted by
SpitFire70
on January 29, 2005 at 5:04 PM
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