Re: OT: something to be looked at by both rep and dem

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
> On Jan 7, 11:26�pm, Effenpig1 <dirtyspicev...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 5:07�pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 7, 12:45�pm, "petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8
>>>> This kid make sense, a new revolution should come!
>>>> cause its no more by the people for the people..
>>>> now its by the people for the leaders.
>>> Okay then you start it
>> Newsflash - War is unpleasant
>
> Yeah, I remember when it used to be unpleasent.
>
> Does any one remember?
>
> When the point was to defeat your enemy, not to be careful that you
> didn't bomb a certain building or didn't shoot in this direction or
> that. When you saw the enemy you destroyed them and if  you weren't
> sure, you destroyed them anyway.
>
> Remember? That's when we used to win wars.

I'm too young.  I only remember the ones you lost.


>
> All the Americans who sacraficed their lives for this country are
> turning in their graves  .... if such a thing were possible. Any who
> are alive have got to be totaly embarrassed at what a bunch of pussies
> this nation has turned into.
>

It's not so much the "bunch of pussies".  It's the lack of leadership,
political support and will.  There was no clear goal established for the
invasion of Iraq.  WMD didn't exist.  When you start a war based on a
lie everyone loses.  It's Vietnam and Korea all over again.  America is
fighting a "war", but the detainees aren't considered POW's.  They're
"illegal combatants".  The North Vietnamese used exactly the same
excuses for the torture and treatment of captured American soldiers.

I've just finished a book called the Pinochet Files.  America needs to
get their own house in order and stop interfering in the politics and
government of other nations.  Obama has a long hard road ahead of him.
Here's hoping he'll bring "honesty", "truth", and "justice" back into
the American Lexicon.