Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

War in two Gulfs, liberals who can't resist a uniform, Sander Hicks & 9/11, and who rules who?

Which Gulf is this?

(A soldier patrols the street next to a house fire in the Garden District of New Orleans, Sept. 6, 2005.)

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William Blum says:

At Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas and other places anti-war protesters congregate these days the refrain can be heard: We’re against the war but we support our brave soldiers. Please, people, gimme a break.

Are American soldiers brave because they’re risking their lives every day? No, they’re foolish; foolish to be risking their lives for the awful purposes of this war, which they do not even understand. If I’m opposed to the war because of the thousand kinds of horror it rains down upon the Iraqi people, how can I support those who carry out the horrors?

(Franken chills with a fellow liberal)

Al Franken, the humorist who’s the leading host of Air America radio, would like you to believe that he’s against the war, but he went to Iraq to entertain the troops a while back. Does that make sense? Why does the military bring entertainers to the soldiers? To lift their spirits. Why does the military want to lift the soldiers’ spirits? A happier soldier does his job better. What’s the soldier’s job? Raining down a thousand kinds of horror upon the Iraqi people.

And here’s a spokesperson for ANSWER, one of the two leading anti-war organizations active today: “We’re not against the troops. We don’t oppose the troops, we love them. That’s why we want to bring them home.” There has to be a better way to express that sentiment.

The brave soldiers, the ones I love, are the ones who in various ways have refused to continue in the crimes against humanity, even if it means prison or exile in Canada.

(William Blum: http://www.killinghope.org)