War PR: Las Vegas soldier recalls the night the war began

[NVMojo]

you gotta read this to understand how to fight it ...

"This was an interesting night," Van Kirk, 27, and now a captain with the 6th Army Recruiting Brigade in North Las Vegas, recalled in a recent interview.

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"It started with an alert for donning chemical protective gear. We waited that one out for a while," he said. "The adrenalin was running during the whole chemical scare, which ended up being a false alarm."

Then, as midnight approached, the war began with an artillery barrage.

"We could see the trail, the end of the rounds, as the glow disappeared into the distance for about 10 minutes," Van Kirk said. "Then we got the call to move out."

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Sean Sabatini, organizer of a "patriotic demonstration against the war in Iraq" on Saturday, said he's glad that Van Kirk sees it that way. "I want people to know we are not against the troops. We are against the war."

Sabatini described his group, Nevada Workers Against the War, as "ordinary working people who are not usually the kind of folks you would see at anti-war demonstrations."

"This is the third anniversary of a war that was supposed to last three weeks," Sabatini said Thursday. "I would say President Bush used up most of America's power invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, and in the process, a lot of the real culprits got away.

"He made us more enemies. Now we're stuck in Iraq and we are in a quagmire," he said. "The longer we are there, the longer people like (Osama) bin Laden have had time to regroup. The war itself has made us less safe."

more...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-19-Sun-2006/news/6408031.html

[Doctor_J]

1. I remember my grad students, as evening class was letting out

saying "Let's go home and watch the war" like Schlock and Augggh was some sort of special effects pageant. It was sold like a new TV show, and the morans in the red states tuned in.

[zbdent]

2. Yes, don protective "chemical suits" to help spread

Democracy . . .

NOT FOR PROTECTION AGAINST CHEM WEAPONS OR WMDS, like they used to promote the pre-emptive war . . .