The View From Battlefield

Well, of course it is. On the othe hand, this Yahoo! article contains some interesting quotes. I really wonder about the intelligence and honesty of some of the people they find to quote. Try these:

"I think her son would be ashamed of her," said Carver, a Republican. "If I don't like what's going on, I can go to the polls every four years."

I CALL BULLSHIT. Out of curosity, who exactly is in contact with Casey Sheehan and how? Can you please tell me his exact words?

"Our attention span is simply shorter," said Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isn't what it used to be."

OK, I won't call bullshit, I don't know about attention spans, but a lot of us, I mean A LOT knew this war and it's justifications were bullshit. We knew it in the beginning. We knew it when Colin Powell went to the UN. And frankly some people owe me apologies. A lot of apologies.

Robin Brown, a Republican from Douglasville, Ga., says the U.S. troops will eventually achieve their mission "if people will hang in there with them."

Madame Brown apparently used her crystal ball to figure this out, because it sure wasn't logic.

Vivian Snyder, a Republican from Staten Island, N.Y., said she disagreed with the decision to invade Iraq, but doesn't want troops to leave yet. "Otherwise, it's all for nothing."

I CALL BULLSHIT! This is just a variation on the stay the course rhetoric we've been listening to for four years (although not exactly in the Iraq ware context). What makes people think that things are going to change? Again, please tell me what the logic is. Because right this smells like nothing more than jingoism.

I'd like to award these two a second I call BULLSHIT. I still know of nobody -- I MEAN NOBODY - that's has anything but respect for the troops. All of my frustration and anger are directed specifically at the Bush-Cheney neocon-men, not our troops. And on that note, we might want to ask why the decreases in veteran's benefits and closings of the VA hospitals and the lack of body armour and the unprotected Humvees.....You know, it's getting to be a long list and I think it's the Idiot President and the Republican congress that's the problem. And indeed, that is one of our points.

An overwhelming number of people say critics of the
Iraq war should be free to voice their objections — a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines.

Okay, I can't quibble with that. 90% is a really big number. And it's nice to see we really think that, but then why do we put up with violent minority, like the VFW. This group is now clearly outside of the mainstream. And as far as I can tell, they are just as guilty of hate speech as the Radical Cleric Pat Robertson.

Let's have some of you people starting explaining your thinking and logic instead of just repeating expressions you think are cute. Echoing the idiot president is not a good idea. He has proven to be thoroughly dishonest and we know he does not have your best interests at heart. Just wait until he's done raping Social Security. I'm sure we'll all feel better then.