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Monday, February 28, 2005

Decoding the Support-the-Troops Spin

Posted by Mickey Z on 02/28 at 06:22 AM

I appreciate the sign made for a vigil by Women in Black; rather than “Support the Troops” it urged: “Refuse to Go”!

Posted by Lee Hall on from 02/28 at 04:48 PM

Refuse to go, indeed. It’s a death sentence even for those troops that come back. Kurt Nimmo reports that depleted uranium munitions cause cancer is now definitive. More than half a million troops from the first Gulf War are on medical disability and 11,000 are already dead. No wonder Negroponte was so keen to get outa there. Mickey, how about interviewing some of those half million sick soldiers out there? Maybe there is a book in it. But hurry.

Jim

Posted by Jim Shanahan on from 02/28 at 07:04 PM

Thanks, Jim. I am involved in a book project on the topic of “support the troops” so perhaps I can make sure this topic is being covered. More soon on that.

In the meantime, here’s something everyone might find interesting:
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/1265/Soldier_shocked_by_pupils_letters

Posted by Mickey Z. on from 02/28 at 07:32 PM

and for more about DU, see another great PBU post:

http://www.silenceisconsent.blogspot.com/

Thanks, Mickey

Posted by deb on from Seattle 03/01 at 08:48 AM

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war
in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is a double-edged sword.
It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached
a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and
the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather,
the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by
patriotism, will off up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is
what I have done. And I am Caeser.”
Julius Caeser

Posted by christopher on from as far north as you can get and still be in vermon 03/01 at 09:13 AM

whoops Caesar not caeser!!!!

Posted by christopher wentworth on from as far north as you can get and still be in vermon 03/01 at 09:14 AM

guess there is some question about the
attribution of this...sounds great nevertheless

Posted by christopher wentworth on from verrrmont 03/01 at 09:23 AM

This is absolutely dead to rights on target. Do you see how pervasive this mentality is? I am an avowed peacemonger, yet my language is littered with violent metaphors! Think about it! Every time you speak, consider, if only in retrospect, the tenor of your speech. Is it peaceful or warlike? Is it nurturing or domineering? Is it more communitarian or authoritarian? Are we humbly struggling together, fearfully willing to self sacrifice? Or am I quick to tell you what to do, what to think? Even now, am I instructing you, or am I simply going on ahead? Am I telling you or showing you? I have to walk the walk first.

Posted by Mark Demory on from Milton-Freewater, Oregon 03/03 at 10:26 AM

US soldier: ‘Why I’m against Bush’s war for oil’

Brayden joined the US army not thinking he’d ever be sent to war. He
certainly hadn’t entertained the idea that he would turn against a war.
He served as a commissioned officer, rising to the rank of captain, from
June 2000 to November 2004. Brayden was sent to Iraq in May 2003 and
spent 14 months there. But soon after arriving, Brayden began to
have his doubts about the reasons for being there. Full article:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/618/618p12.htm

Posted by Lee Hall on from 03/08 at 10:50 PM

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