And thanks also for watching over the precious people that accompanied you to Free Iraq.
Gold Star Mother Jan Johnson consoles those who suffered under Saddam’s Anfal genocide.
What a great healing process for both of them
Kristen's Report #2 from FREE IRAQ: CLICK HERE
Kristinn's third dispatch from FREE IRAQ. Spread the word - PING!!
I misspelled his name. Doh! Can you correct to read Kristinn's (before he sees this and kicks my @ss!!!!) LOL!
I think it's only fitting that Saddam be hanged with that very rope.
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The picture of the Kurdish woman and the Gold Star Mom reaching out for each other brought tears to my eyes.
*Bump*
Bump for liberty, a tonic for the soul of a nation.
FReeper Kristinn makes his 3rd report from FREE IRAQ!
Wow, great report!
I didn't realize any stories on Iraq and the goings on there, especially military, were being reported after the election.
I don't think you guys were ever pinged last week, after the teaser "Big Announcement" thread, so I figured I'd ping you to this one where you can find links to all the threads about the Iraq trip. The stories, photos and the audio reports from the Gold Star families will move all but the hardest-hearted of the hardcore 'Rats.
Bump for Kristin!!
And thanks also for watching over the precious people that accompanied you to Free Iraq.
What a great healing process for both of them
It is pretty common knowledge that the Kurdish areas of Iraq were and remain apart from Persian and/or Arab Iraq;
Kurds are neat people, willing and able to sacrifice and to fight back. Willing and able to meet with the press and to rebuild before others would consider attempting it.
But, entirely apart from Kurd/Turk/Iraqi issues, this is not Iraq.
Are there any parallel reports from the south?
Will the tour include the south?
(Sorry if this sounds negative: but we just dumped an election because of 'faulty intelligence' - or maybe 'failure to communicate').
PS: "faulty intelligence"; The Pubbies:
Assumed middle class hispanics would vote conservative
Assumed middle class Jews would vote conservative
Assumed middle class Blacks would vote conservative
Assumed that "war time" still had some meaning in a post Vietnam America
and,
Assumed that the utter lack of a message would doom any left wing effort at repeating its late sixties successes
[That, in turn] ignored the attraction that socialism holds for 'youth', especially educated youth...
Compassionate Conservatism then ignored its conservative base
Which allowed...
Some Republicans to stay home (I'd bet a SMALL percent)
some Republicans to cast protest votes for libertarians, democrats, or space aliens
And, finally; they
Ignored the border issues that might embarrass GWB and Senor Faux
Failed to admit that the cutting edge of Dem policy makers is and remains a socialist conspiracy
Failed to use even remotely similar tactics against a dirty fighter
and,
Allowed the dirty fighter/socialist/antiwar and anti-troops/democrat left to selectively arsenate otherwise viable conservative personalities....
We lost by being nice, by believing that the economy mattered to the way people vote when the key really is manufactured perception & entirely apart from technical reality,
And,
By trying to make nice with the "moderate" fringe of a socialist (Bolshevik) opposition.
I'm no longer in the mood for comforting answers and it has been 33 years since I assumed the other side was in any manner honorable.
Rant completed. I'll be nice now.
God Bless the Gold Star Families!!!! They and their family members are my heros.
BUMP!