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1 posted on 02/12/2024 12:02:11 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Didn’t read it all.... I think I will later. My comment is. Main stream media kept a body count of dead American soldiers during Bush’s time. Then stopped when Obama took office.


2 posted on 02/12/2024 12:19:12 AM PST by Pocketdoor
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The transformation of the country from a nation to an empire was officially complete when it became the political and cultural norm for its voters to elect draft-dodgers who are hell-bent on sending other people to war.


5 posted on 02/12/2024 3:07:24 AM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesnโ€™t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: golux
Interesting timing.

I was unaware of this recent article when I quoted and linked the song yesterday morning.

There will be many who will suddenly wish that they had found a little something nice to say about America.

Quote:

"Let this song that I'm singing be a warning."

Merle Haggard - The Fightin Side Of Me (Live)


6 posted on 02/12/2024 3:36:00 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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It wasn’t the draft that worried the hippies. It was going to war and getting shot at. The draft was part of being an American male. It came with the territory. They were cowards.


7 posted on 02/12/2024 3:47:26 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Neat song - Thanks Merle. But Hippies weren't the problem back then. It was the Leftist pro-enemy people who built and guided the "antiwar" movement against our government and our efforts to keep South Vietnam free.

Hippies were harmless losers who were only interested in having a good time but the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice - the visible arm of the Communist Party and the New Mobe - the visible arm of the Socialist Worker's Party - ran all of the planning, direction, funding of the Anti- Vietnam War movement. They had a continuous commuter service to Hanoi to receive direction and to bring back materials to support their propaganda.

Their lineal descendants are the ones running our country into the ground right now.

11 posted on 02/12/2024 4:14:21 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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I am as far away from the “country livin’” as anyone can be, but I must say:

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE COUNTRY MUSIC!!!!!


12 posted on 02/12/2024 4:20:13 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: nickcarraway

Replace hippie with liberal and it works today.


13 posted on 02/12/2024 4:29:31 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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โ€œ Haggard told Marc Eliot in 2022โ€™s The Hag: โ€

Very interesting considering Merle Haggard died in 2016.


19 posted on 02/12/2024 6:04:09 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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Merle disowned Oakie from Muskogee in front of me at a Seattle concert in about 1999.

He refused to sing a bunch of its words, claiming he had forgotten them.

The stage backdrop was pure Socialist Realist, and (iirc) included the raised fist of leftism.


22 posted on 02/12/2024 6:09:28 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: nickcarraway

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24 posted on 02/12/2024 6:18:20 AM PST by Romans Nine
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Really too bad that he turned into a Lefty.


28 posted on 02/12/2024 6:29:30 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (ื‘ืจืืฉื™ืช ื‘ืจื ืืœืงื™ื ืืช ื”ืฉืžื™ื ื•ืืช ื”ืืจืฅ)
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The Marching Hippies--Guy Drake (1971)
30 posted on 02/12/2024 6:52:29 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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35 posted on 02/12/2024 11:33:07 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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