Merry Christmas to Those Who Support The War
And everyone who voted for Bush, and those of you paralyzed in silent neutrality. We can’t afford you anymore.
December 26th, 2007 by Cliff Lyon 
Cliff Lyon
December 26th, 2007 by Cliff Lyon Cliff Lyon
And everyone who voted for Bush, and those of you paralyzed in silent neutrality. We can’t afford you anymore.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Compare the very effective ads by Ari Fleischer’s Republican Party propaganda group Freedom’s Watch. Their latest pretends to be a simple “thank you” to the troops at Christmas time but it’s really an effort to equate support of our soldiers with support for Bush’s braindead foreign policy.
Fleischer must be concerned about the recent polls that show military members and their families turning against the GOP. The current Times/Bloomberg poll found that nearly 70 percent of military households with a veteran of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan said that troops in Iraq should either come home right away or within the next year.
BTW Cliff, by calling the Iraq occupation a “war” you are playing into the hands of the GOP. They have many people convinced Iraq is part of the “Long War” or GWOT. That’s why the old propaganda term “anti-Iraqi forces” has been dropped in favor of calling every anti-occupation Iraqi group “Al Qaeda.” Also the term “war” carries with it the implication that it can end in “victory.” An occupation, by contrast, can only end with a withdrawal. These propaganda people are clever with words even if Bush is barely able to speak English.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I was able to pick up a copy of “The U.S. vs John Lennon” for ten bucks at Blockbuster. He wasn’t the spaced out acid head the media portrayed him as. He was a very honest, sometimes abrasive personality with a lot of passion and purpose. Mike Douglas says on the DVD that the week he and Yoko were on his daytime talk show was a highlight for him. The DVD also reveals the fact that Lennon never took a dime for any of the concerts he gave after the beatles broke up.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Take a look at this 1975 interview with Tom Snyder, (this version seems to be in 5 parts with part four missing, sorry.) Very interesting and honest dialog. Too bad Tom Snyder passed away recently. I think he was one of the good guys in media.
December 27th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Rich, I have become convinced that this is something more than an occupation. I believe the administration does not want a peaceful occupation.
Try to think of another occupation in which millions are displaced, combat operations continue, millions are still being displaced and exiled and bombing missions are conducted daily after five years.
Therefore, it is a war. We are stealing oil, building bases and threatening neighbors.
If the administration really wanted a real occupation there would be more troops there and they would be protecting against ethnic cleansing rather than promoting it.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Cliff, you’re right. A successful occupation of Iraq would probably take a half million American soldiers, and much more astute diplomacy than the Bush administration has been able to muster. We don’t have enough troops and enough political leverage to pull this off, so our commanders resort to ad hoc approaches. For example, the over-use of air power and the jailing of 60,000 detainees– guilty and innocent alike.
The permanent bases and the Green Zone are doomed to be abandoned, just as the British abandoned their permanent bases in Iraq fifty years ago. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.