stories about traumatized vets coming back from Vietnam only to be
spit on and called baby killers. It is however a step from not wanting
to go there to not wanting to question anything to government does
ever.
I consider my mind to be still mostly open on the topic, but really, I
have to question the war on Iraq. If it needed to be done then it
should have been done differently. I went on a book-buying binge over
the weekend and picked up Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack. I understand
that the book relies heavily on Colin Powell's point of view; we'll
see if it changes my mind about anything. So far (around page 100) I
see an administration that was just bound and determined to go to war
regardless of the consequences.
Dana
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:37:47 -0400, Nick McClure
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is interesting way to look at it, however I feel that protesting the
> merits of war makes it very difficult to support the troops.
>
> Think of it this way, how is it on Morale if you protest the war by saying
> we shouldn't be there, how does that affect the minds of the troops who are
> there when you say they shouldn't be there, that what they are doing is
> wrong.
>
> You may support them mentally, and hope they do their job well and make it
> back safe and all that, but if you don't think they should be there, and
> that what they are fighting for is wrong, then you aren't really supporting
> the troops, you are telling them what they are doing is wrong, and that hits
> the morale.
>
> Just my opinion, I don't know how others see this.
>
> _____
>
> From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:05 PM
> To: CF-Community
>
>
> Subject: Re: 9/11 Commission to Cheney - You're still wrong.
>
> well it's an argument over the definition of "pressure." No, the Bush
> administration did not hold a gun to anyone's head. Still. The
> available choices were portrayed at the time as "support our troops"
> or...not. Yes, lawmakers should have shown more gumption and it is
> troubling that they did not. But they did not and can you blame them?
> I thought twice before standing on the sidelines of an antiwar
> protest. And wisely; the protest was teargassed on one of the nights I
> was not there. It's very easy to second-guess a CIA analyst with a
> mortgage and two children in college.
>
> Dana________________________________
>
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