> Through Bush’s failed ‘stay the course’ policy, this little girl lost her father
6 November 2006, 19:20
Ms. MacElveen forgets one very important item in this column: This war of invasion and occupation is being waged with an all volunteer army, not a conscript army.
This brings up two tangents that I would like to explore.
1] Had their been a draft, this war would have been far more unpopular that it is now. It is precisely because this war is being fought with volunteer forces, and not draftees, that many Americans are not going to be as sympathetic towards those American troops who have suffered in this ongoing and miserable nightmare, simply because no one put a gun to their head when they volunteered. It would have been a much different story had many young Americans been forced to kill or be killed by Muslims. This is the most important difference between this Iraqi war of occupation and the Vietnam war.
In spite of all the dastardly and two-faced ways the Repukables have solicited support for this false war, there is one thing they never touched, and that is reactivating the Selective Service.
Yes, this corrupt neocon generation of Repukables could be described as being congenitally stupid, but they weren’t so stupid that they reactivated the Selective Service.
Had they reactivated the Selective Service, the neocons’ popularity would have nose dived three years ago, we would be seeing one thousand times more anti-war protests than we are seeing now, and the White House’s approval ratings would be in single digits, and not the laughable 26% we are seeing now.
Which brings me to tangent 2]
The latest scientific data, as funded and presented by the Johns Hopkins University, states that over 650,000 Iraqis have died violent deaths since the invasion of 2003.
I am sorry, Ms. MacElveen, but my heart goes out more to those innocent Iraqi children, who now number in the millions, who have been left orphans because of this war, and not the several thousand whose fathers or mothers died doing what they thought needed to done, which was for all practical purposes, the infliction of utter destruction upon an already wasted Mulsim country.
The children of Iraq didn’t ask for this suffering and misery to happen to themselves, and neither did their parents.
One cannot say the same about most American troops, since the majority were all in favor of invading and occupying a country, weakened and decimated by UN sanctions, that was never capable of attacking our own.
Yes, War is hell, but this man-made hell is usually suffered by those who are the weakest and the most innocent. And the weakest and the most innocent are the Iraqi kids, not the Americans.
Ms. MacElveen forgets one very important item in this column: This war of invasion and occupation is being waged with an all volunteer army, not a conscript army.
This brings up two tangents that I would like to explore.
1] Had their been a draft, this war would have been far more unpopular that it is now. It is precisely because this war is being fought with volunteer forces, and not draftees, that many Americans are not going to be as sympathetic towards those American troops who have suffered in this ongoing and miserable nightmare, simply because no one put a gun to their head when they volunteered. It would have been a much different story had many young Americans been forced to kill or be killed by Muslims. This is the most important difference between this Iraqi war of occupation and the Vietnam war.
In spite of all the dastardly and two-faced ways the Repukables have solicited support for this false war, there is one thing they never touched, and that is reactivating the Selective Service.
Yes, this corrupt neocon generation of Repukables could be described as being congenitally stupid, but they weren’t so stupid that they reactivated the Selective Service.
Had they reactivated the Selective Service, the neocons’ popularity would have nose dived three years ago, we would be seeing one thousand times more anti-war protests than we are seeing now, and the White House’s approval ratings would be in single digits, and not the laughable 26% we are seeing now.
Which brings me to tangent 2]
The latest scientific data, as funded and presented by the Johns Hopkins University, states that over 650,000 Iraqis have died violent deaths since the invasion of 2003.
I am sorry, Ms. MacElveen, but my heart goes out more to those innocent Iraqi children, who now number in the millions, who have been left orphans because of this war, and not the several thousand whose fathers or mothers died doing what they thought needed to done, which was for all practical purposes, the infliction of utter destruction upon an already wasted Mulsim country.
The children of Iraq didn’t ask for this suffering and misery to happen to themselves, and neither did their parents.
One cannot say the same about most American troops, since the majority were all in favor of invading and occupying a country, weakened and decimated by UN sanctions, that was never capable of attacking our own.
Yes, War is hell, but this man-made hell is usually suffered by those who are the weakest and the most innocent. And the weakest and the most innocent are the Iraqi kids, not the Americans.