Who cares if we've been in Iraq for Two Years?

[Sandpiper]

There are more important things for us to worry about as a nation!

Baseball players are taking steroids!

A brain dead woman in Florida had her feeding tube removed!


Our military occupation of Iraq is the least of our worries.



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[BamaLefty]

1. Exactly

Thank God Gays Can't Marry! Couldn't leave that one out ya know. :eyes:

[mondo joe]

2. The right to privacy isn't as important as an anniversary?

The Terri Schiavo issue is about civil rights and the GOP assult on them.

[EVDebs]

3. Yeah, on CNN awhile back Sen McCain said we'd be stuck in there

for "ten to twenty years...that's not so bad."

See Bob Herbert's IHT column "The Republican's bizarre parallel universe" column, also titled "Heads in the sand", from September 3, 2004, Friday, NYTimes

http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/09_04.html

"When asked this week on CNN how long the U.S. military is likely to remain in Iraq, Senator John McCain replied "probably" 10 or 20 years."

and this was the kicker

"The Los Angeles Times noted yesterday that a report by the respected Royal Institute of International Affairs in London has concluded that Iraq will be lucky if it avoids a breakup and civil war. The often-stated U.S. goal of a full-fledged Iraqi democracy is beyond unlikely."

McCain doesn't deserve to be elected dogcatcher; and the Republicans have no clue as to how long US troops will be stationed there. Might as well make Iraq the 51st state.

[sickem]

4. Right on man!

One of our Republican state representatives wrote this bullshit editorial that they printed in our little local mountain paper in which he offered this huge, largely incoherent screed of a rebuttal to Ted Kennedy's claim that Iraq was George Bush's Vietnam. He makes the statement that "Hopefully George Bush will never let the American people loose sight of the reason for the war in Iraq."

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?

Which reason is he referring to.....the first one or the ones they came up with after the fact?

[diamond14]

5. so many DUers are COMPLICIT in their SILENCE......it's pathetic

if you listen carefully....that SILENCE on the Iraqi massacre, and failure to speak out, is the chattering chattering chattering about a corpse that has been brain-dead for 15 years...


Complicit in their SILENCE, the young DRAFT-age DUers have already lost most chances to get away from the "whirling industrial fan" that chops draftees into CANNON FODDER....they are walking like sheep right into the blades.....





Kansas City Pro-Peace Rally and Peace Vigil, March 19, 2005

[da_chimperor]

6. Put down the broad brush. I'm draft age and I'm speaking out.

I do all the time. I'm known over here as 'the American guy who hates bush'. I speak out against the war and him every chance I get. Just because everyone isn't talking about Iraq all the time doesn't make it less important.

[diamond14]

7. every single schiavo thread here on DU is DESTROYING your efforts

this past week has been a very critical juncture for the Pro-Peace events....I couldn't even keep a ANNOUNCEMENT of a PRO-PEACE rally up on the main board for more than 3 minutes, because of the chattering chattering about a corpse that's been brain-dead for 15 years....


that chattering SILENCED the Pro-Peace events, the efforts to stop the war, which would stop the draft.....make your plans....my cousin was KILLED in Vietnam, 19 years old, HM3, Silver Star, Purple Heart DEAD....the draft is happening very quickly, and when the engine starts UP...it'll be a BIG SUCKING SOUND...those of us who lived through Vietnam have heard that BIG SUCKING SOUND before....



message to America from Istanbul, Turkey....March 20th Peace Rally

THIS is the ANGEL OF DEATH

[da_chimperor]

8. Then keep kicking your thread. Anti-war rallies have gotten plenty of

coverage on DU. I've seen the photo threads, I've read event announcements. This is a message board, and the current (and already old) topic du jour is schiavo. I'm not trying to play down your efforts, I'm just saying that people are fickle and DU is no exception.

[chlamor]

9. You are totally right

I put up a thread last night in GD mentioning Schiavo madness in forum. A retort said post something of import. In between the 14 Schiavo threads I posted an action alert for March 31st anti-draft rallies. Sunk in a minute with 2 responses. I'll do it again here in 5 mins. Watch it sink.

[chlamor]

10. Kick-Nazi Death Camps,Mass Graves,Mass Murder Can't Be Hidden-Iraq War

"it's like the Nazi death camps, eventually the mass graves and the mass murder can't be hidden"

Editor Comment, thepeoplesvoice.org

Posted March 19, 2005

194,000 < http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/2/voices-guterman.asp > men, women, and children in Iraq and Afghanistan have been murdered by the radical American republican 'right'. Although the corporate media has been fairly successful at damage control, in hiding this mass slaughter from the American people, it's like the Nazi death camps, eventually the mass graves and the mass murder can't be hidden or white washed or labeled as 'a war against terrorism', anymore. Eventually the true horror of the Bush regime's megalomania will be known to all including the dumbed down American masses. The radical right is aware of the stench of death that now surrounds them. They want to find any acceptable way they can to divert peoples ever growing attention from their actions. They are always on the lookout for any non-issue which usually affects only a tiny group of people. They use these non issues to frame themselves as compassionate and heroic without actually doing anything that would change their policies. They want to make themselves appear to actually care about things like human life, while they simultaneously mass murder the Muslim people. Don't be fooled by their crocodile tears and caring emotions shown over Terri Schiavo. Oh yes, Republicans appear to be working tirelessly on an extraordinary last-minute push on Capitol Hill to use the subpoena powers of Congress to keep the brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo alive. Of course the obedient corporate media is spreading the word about the great republican compassion, but the media and the republicans aren't saying anything about the hundreds of thousands of women and children that are wounded and dieing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10573

[saltpoint]

11. The parents, siblings, neighbors, and friends of those --

-- killed in Iraq probably do care about the protests this past week.

Many DUers join in that concern.

If anybody heard Daniel Schorr's absolutely excellent commentary today on the Schiavo matter, you know that not everyone is being bamboozled by Tom DeLay and the "Culture of Life" morons.

Congressional intervention in the Schiavo case is monstrous but also unconstitutional. That bill won't live as long as Terri Schiavo.

Meanwhile, the tsunami of lies told by the Bush administration regarding the war-for-oil requires a more vigilant media and increased awareness by world citizenry. Anniversary protests address that need with equanimity.

The protestors, many of them, march to honor the Iraqi citizens who have lost their lives in Mr. Bush's assault on their country.

I hear ya, Sandpiper.