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January 1st, 2007 at 7:05 pm
“I still don’t understand why people aren’t protesting in the streets on a daily basis.”
Maybe because most people realize that the kids serving over there read papers and watch TV news. Public anti -war demonstrations don’t help, they just hurt the soldiers morale as well show a lack of support for them.
I agree we have no business there. It’s sad that the people who get us into wars are never the ones who have to go and fight them.
—–signed- proud parent of an Iraq war vet who came home, widow of a viet nam vet who didn’t
January 1st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
That can’t be the only reason not to protest. I’m sure there are plenty of boys and girls over there right now who wish like hell we WERE demanding that this war stop, because as far as I have seen with the polls coming out from the armed forces over there, a majority of them have lost the faith that they are even doing ANY good right now.
Bagdad and other parts of Iraq are already segregated into Shia and Sunni, displacing millions from their homes, and our kids couldn’t do a damn thing about it. The screwups on this war happened a long time ago when Bush failed to listen to many of his military advisors (instead, some were forcibly retired). It failed when we went in there in the first place, with NO ability to understand context. There’s nothing they can do now to change that. That Pandora’s box has already been opened.
But this isn’t just about our kids over there, it’s about the hundreds of thousands of dead and mained Iraqis who never asked for our interferance, it’s about the fact that our occupation over there is fueling all sorts of hate against our soldiers everywhere, and against the US as a whole. It’s about the fact that our idiot in chief has failed time and again to even acknowledge he’s wrong, and needs to own up to reality, nevermind change course.
So I’m sorry if some troops mistake anti-war protests as being against them. Since half the signs at any protest I’ve been to say “Support the troops - bring them home” (we’ve learned from our terrible mistakes in the past) they have no need to think this is at all about them, except insomuch as we wish they had never been lied to and used and put into a dangerous situation they should not have been in in the first place.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Another example of the two America’s described by John Edwards.
ATLANTA (AP) — Dogged by criticism of his hefty pay and his company’s poor stock performance, Bob Nardelli abruptly resigned Wednesday as chairman and chief executive of The Home Depot Inc. after six years at the helm of the world’s largest home improvement store chain.
But he didn’t leave empty-handed: the Atlanta-based company said Nardelli would receive a severance package worth roughly $210 million, an amount decried by some lawmakers as a golden parachute that sends the wrong message to investors.