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Please do.
Show posters of Vietnamese hanging from helicopters.
I have a friend who was the son of a Vietnamese Colonel. After we abandoned them, his father went to a "re-education camp" never to be seen again. My friend spent 45 days on a boat with 115 people passing a coffee can to use as a toilet before he found his way to freedom.
Abandoning the Iraqis will be much worse. Not only will they die by the hundreds of thousands, we will be feeding those who will bring nukes to North America.
Somehow the Iraq War protests with their geriatric hippies and unwashed freaks turn out a tiny fraction compared to the Vietnam protests of the 60's and 70's. The difference is there's no draft this time. The so-called "antiwar movement" 35 and 40 years ago was really an anti-conscription movement. Nobody really opposed war, they just opposed the inconvenience of being in the war. A few years after the end of the draft when Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge and millions were slaughtered, the "war protesters" were nowhere to be seen.
Hi Dog, Are you and other PWs going.
This is less than 2 miles from my apt.
Send me a FRmail
and I can see what I can do at my end.
As you know I and other FReepers have been with your group
on a number of occasions.
I am sick of hearing about California. I read on FOX that they are going to refuse to buy energy from any polluting source. Do you know what that means? They are goihng to try to buy all the clean energy from WA State and drive up our power prices. California can fall into the ocean for all I care. I hope that our unelected govenor will stop it, but I doubt it.
Hugo Chavez stated in his UN devil-sulfur speech that San Diego was full of antiwar protestors. I guess that makes these freaks his people.
Let em protest war in a war zone, not in some all you can smoke fudge monkey city.
Did they ask the Iraqis first?
Hmmm, let's change a couple of words and see how it plays:
End the War on Viet Nam! Bring the Troops Home Now! The US occupation of Viet Nam is the greatest source of violence in Viet Nam today. Only the immediate and complete withdrawal of US and other occupation troops will clear the path for Vietnamese to determine their own future. We need to bring our sons and daughters home now.
What happened the last time the Democrats took power and pursued their anti-American Leftist agenda? Viet Nam was taken over by the commies. Up to a million were killed in the re-education camps. A million or more people were driven from the country, taking desperate measures to gain freedom from the commies, remember the term "the Boat People".
The Commies in Cambodia forcibly emptied the cities and drove the entire population into the countryside. Over the period of a couple of years, the commies killed about a third of the population, until the Vietnamese commies invaded and installed a puppet government. In the past decade, the Vietnamese commies have taken baby steps towards capitalism, because socialism simply is not sustainable. The Vietnamese people are among the most pro-American on the planet, because they want freedom and prosperity. The "boat people" who made to America have a higher GNP than the remaining nation of Viet Nam.
So, which was the better option for the people of Viet Nam, winning the war or losing the war against the Americans? As some Russian said, communism is the longest path from capitalism to capitalism.
The same people who advocated for American defeat in Viet Nam, which resulted in a holocaust are advocating for American defeat in Iraq. Every Iraqi knows that this will also result in a holocaust. The "anti-War" movement aren't against war. And they could care less of the lives or real people. They'd just as well see millions dead.
The only explanation is a psychological explanation. The anti-War people are psychically stunted. They have morbid feelings of guilt. They have become perverse self-haters. The project this self-hatred onto hate objects: Bush, America, Israel, corporations. All of the self-haters activities are not aimed at having an effect in the real world, the effect desired is a mitigation of their own guilty feelings.
The activities don't work. They don't mitigate the guilt. They just provoke more and greater feelings of hatred. Some of these stunted people become dangerous and become terrorists. Others of these stunted people become US Senators and Congressmen.
Sure wish we could be there with all of you!