Common Dreams: If You Vote for War, You Go to War

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1222-32.htm

A Message from Eminem and His Generation

by Jacqueline Marcus

“…Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die"
— Eminem, “Mosh”

There’s a tidal wave rising of discontent among the younger generations.

Despite the corporate media’s Extreme Makeover of the daily, horrific disasters in Iraq, a storm of rebellion is growing from inside the military and all across America. Young people are realizing the shameful reality that they’ve been hoodwinked, bamboozled. The Bush administration orchestrated the theft of a country in the name of freedom and democracy.

Rumsfeld continues to repeat that they are making progress in Iraq. And yet, everyone knows that Iraq is the very definition of chaos. Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died, mostly children, from Bush’s “theft of Iraq.” They thought it was going to be like stealing candy from a baby, a “cakewalk.” Ten thousand U.S. soldiers are maimed for life and nearly 1,200 and counting have died.

Young men and women are being used as ammunition for the Oil and Defense corporations, like Halliburton. As Eminem put it, “No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil / No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal.”

They’re waking up. And they have a message for this Corporate-Diebold-President, the only candidate in history who had to rely on cheating machines for the Presidential debates and for his votes: FIGHT YOUR OWN DIRTY WAR.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1222-32.htm

I live in Washington state, close enough to Canada. Although I am not of draft age, I have dear friends who are. Perhaps it's time we start planning the 21st century version of The Underground Railroad. Before one kid gets drafted, I want to see the bush* family brats suited up and shipped out, and that includes the slut-muffin alkie twins.

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1. the last four paras:

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Michael Kinsley argued, "If the decision makers of society—politicians, business leaders, and so on—had children at risk, a war would be a lot less likely." I’ll go a step further: If national and international leaders, corporate CEOs, and elected politicians knew that once they declared war or voted for war, they would, by law, have to serve in the battlefields, predictably, that would end all wars around the world.

If Bush wants to be the patriot that he claims to be, he has to do more than wear a tiny American flag in his lapel. If Rumsfeld is determined to send soldiers out into deadly and explosive territory without the necessary protective equipment, then it’s time for Rumsfeld to practice what he preaches: If he votes for war, he goes to war.

And while we’re at it, let’s send Cheney and his family, Rice, the Bush daughters, and the CEOs of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOXTV into the explosive terrain of Iraq without their security agents. We’ll insist of giving Murdock full FOXTV coverage in the war zone. L.A. Times photo-op: Murdock in his Marine helmet, a little mud smudged on his face, a cig dangling from his lip, as he rolls out in an open jeep into hostile terrain surrounded by Iraqis who hate Bush and his military occupation of their country.

But first, we better provide plenty of Pampers for when they wet their pants at the first round of explosions…

[scarletlib]

2. You said it!

For this nation to be at war in the 21st century is insane! War is not necessary when a nation is as rich and powerful as ours. Really think about it. War is what small leaders, nut jobs foist on a hapless people.

We have brought great shame on our nation. It's just insane.

[puddycat]

3. I'm so discouraged about this war

I think I've convinced one conservative friend to think twice about the war, but its been a long hard journey. I love my conservative friends dearly but most simply don't "get it" and I have run out of ideas. When approached on whether they intend to encourage their own children to enlist and fight they say that there is no way their own child will die in this war (Iraq). They are content to have our voluntary army fight all the battles and this troubles me deeply, because not only do they not want their own children to enlist for a cause they support, but they see no hypocrisy in why Bush's children aren't in uniform.

I just have a very bad feeling that until we have a mandatory draft and everyone's children start dying in Iraq, not just a few, then these neo-con wars will continue to rage. I pray that its not the case. I pray people will wake up before then.

[ToBeCooked]

4. Michael Moore tried this in his film......remember?

I thought that was a funny scene. Michael Moore and a Marine walking around DC trying to recruit the childern of congress members. Of course they don't want to send their kids there......for obvious reasons!!!

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5. Great read