Why Am I Surprised
The Enemy.I would like to say to Cindy Sheehan and her supporters: Don't be a group of unthinking lemmings, said Mitzy Kenny of Ridgeley, W.Va., whose husband died in Iraq last year. She said the anti-war demonstrations ‘can affect the war in a really negative way. It gives the enemy hope.’
That would be like, the Japs, the Krauts, the Gooks ... the goddamn Redcoats, I presume?
Dream on.
I, for one, can't think of a faster way to lose. And I don't mean just this nasty little faux war. Mitzy.
COMMMENTS
are there ever "thinking" lemmings?
Thanks to women like
Mrs. Kenny, all the loss of life in Iraq isn't in vain. We as a Nation need to stand foursquare against the lemmings and Kool-Aid sippers of America. No matter how they feel about the war they need to support the fighting men and women that are giving their all to their Country. Remember that This Is The Land Of The Free
Because Of The Brave
Skip Christy
Mr. Christy,
If I strike you as a lemming *or*a Kool-Aid sipper, then you haven't been reading me very closely. Or perhaps you haven't thought what is really meant by those terms.
Tell me something. The lefties, the dissenters, have a historic tradition of creating social change in America.The people who have always seen the loss of life in any war as in vain. Who create "unrest" precisely because they see discrimination, poverty, injustice, and want social change . . . how does this get labelled Kool-Aid? Isn't that what's always been great about America? That you could speak up, without fear?
I understand, you and I disagree about just how to support the troops. Mu position is that neither silence or acting as if this were WWII, and Islamics the devil's spawn, are helpful.
But what is helpful is questioning our President, For what reason did Ms. Kenny's husband and Ms. Sheehan's son give their lives? It's looking an awful lot like: To make Halliburton richer. Doesn't this make you a little bit sick? It sure as hell does me.
America was always special; we were the world's example of a Democracy. Now we're just another country that uses torture, in secret prisons. Is this is America you grew up in?
I'm sorry if I appeared to belittle Ms. Kenny's loss; sometimes writers make a general point with specific people, and it's not always right.
Glad you posted,
zo
Zo, You made my point for me. Abu Musab al-Zarquawi once said that the American people have no staying power. All we need to do is out last the will of the Americans. I'm not degrading Mrs. Sheehan; I just think that she is using the life of her son in the wrong way. If he were still alive how would he feel about her plight? I can understand how losing a son or daughter could be so devastating that her heart is broken. I don't know how she should deal with it, but the protesting she is doing is prolonging other mothers and fathers, having their sons and daughters being in harms way.
There are lots of things that President Bush is doing in Iraq that I don't agree with, but he seems to be giving his Secatary of Defense and his staff officers their head, as it should be done. I believe that The New York Times and other 'news papers' of their ilk are doing us a great disservice by printing the stories about what the NSA and CIA are doing, because it is giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. That is also "free speech" but I believe it is wrong handed. There should be a full-scale investigation to find who “leaked” this information, and sent directly to jail and do not pass go or collect $200.
We need to prey for our troops and wish them well no matter how you feel about the war. They are still brave Americans fighting for what they believe in, no one held a gun to their head and made the sign their names.
We are still "The Land Of The Free Because Of The Brave"
Skip Christy
Skip,
... But I've already heard all that! During the Viet Nam War. And who was right, in the end?
... Why wouldn't Cindy Sheehan's son, were he alive, be just as likely to be damn proud of his mother?
... It's called a free press. Which used to mean something in America, and will again.
... What point? You and I have very different assumptions about how a democracy works, and the way in which the Bush Administration is heedlessly undoing its underpinnings, in service to the corporation.
By the corporation, for the corporation ...
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