Re: Who enlists? Psychos and losers!

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:50:48 -0400, Holliston Perni wrote:
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> The second group are the simple minded, who fall for pathetic "patriotic"
> entreaties about defending democracy, mom, apple pie; in other words, all
> the traditional government propaganda. Do you think Soviet lads subjugated
> their neighbors throughout the world because they thought the Soviet Union
> was an EVIL empire? No, they were fighting for MOM, and whatever passes for
> apple pie in Russia. Step back and examine the lies your government is
> handing you, and has ALWAYS handed its citizens, and ask yourself if they
> have the ring of truth.

I plead guilty of this error. In 1964/5 Vietnam was an honorable war, my
government said so. My President said I should enlist and do the right
thing. So I did, silly me, and damn near didn't survive. I'd do it again
in a heartbeat too but only if our homeland were directly invaded or
threatened.

It took a decade _after_ my military service to come to grips with the
lies and deceit that killed my friends and almost killed me. "Never
Again!" I swore. Well, I can't stop others from giving thier lives in
vain but I can speak out against this madness.

Invading Iraq has no relationship to defending America any more than
Vietnam or Korea. Allowing the Executive office to embroil us in
undeclared wars has to be the biggest violation of the Constitution in our
short history. How long are we going to allow this *** to happen?

-- Regards, Curly
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