Cynthia Tucker: War Hawks Show Callous Disregard for Working-Class Troops

[deadparrot]

"If I didn't believe we had a plan for victory, I wouldn't leave our people in harm's way. ... I understand people's lives are being lost." --
President Bush, March 21, 2006

The average American understands that soldiers who fought in Vietnam were unfairly blamed for a war they did not start, for lies they did not tell, for mismanaged battle plans they could not salvage. So we're determined not to make that mistake again. This time around, most of us salute our soldiers.

Even determined peace activists, for the most part, are committed to two things -- ending American involvement in Iraq and honoring the soldiers who volunteered to serve there. In a bitterly divided country, the vast majority of us agree that rank-and-file troops should not be held accountable for the politics that led to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Ironically, there is something else most of us agree on, whether in red states or blue: We don't want our loved ones to go to war. Three years ago, when the invasion of Iraq was still widely supported in the United States, the prospect of a military draft was not. Whether Democrats, Republicans or independents, most Americans -- especially among the affluent classes -- were virulently opposed to the idea that their sons and daughters might be forced to serve the nation's military. We still are.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucas/warhawksshowcallousdisregardforworkingclasstroops

[pretzel4gore]

1. the average person knew that nam was a fake war

the 'communist' crap was force fed the people 24/7 for generations, but was communism any more dishonest or murderous then this thing we have now? the nazipoohs USE our own virtues against us, they laff about it.
for example:
jack the ripper was a goof named john druitt, a member of an aristocratic family, a barrister in london at time of the 'jack' murders...he was reported to cops by his own family, who hoped to save him (he was insane) but the times were unusual; literacy was just getting going, the popular press was very avid and 'jack the ripper' captured the popular imagination. BUT it gained the aristos nada to 'fess that one of THEIRS was butchering ours: vast numbers of OUR women/children driven into despair by the monopoly of ALL the nation's wealth by the aristos themselves.... the aristos in the police/press/and the government lihop'ed 'jack the ripper' though they knew full well it was druitt, who a)committed suicide 2 weeks after the kelly murder or b) was 'suicided' by the police when they caught him...the main investigators, 'mcnaughten' and 'abberline' i believe, both named druitt as the guy we know today as jack....again, it gained the victorian era ruling classes nothing to just put the story to bed, just like so many other stories-it was better to keep the people in suspence, plus alot of upper class people made a good living from the 'mystery' (re: patricia cornwell, rightwing boor pos)....this example might seem far removed from the vietnam war, 911, jfk murders etc, but certain interests are well served by 'events' as the ruling classmen reported them- certain biases are nurtured, certain doubts are created, all to ONE CLASS' BENEFIT only! The vietnam soldiery was mostly our young people, working/middle class, and the working/middle classes were lied to relentlessly about gulf of tonkin (the pigmedia poohpoohed the real gulf of tonkin story until about 5 years into regan, when suddenly, w/out a hitch, the story reversed, although even now there are mediawhores who'll say vietnam was was a good war, cuz they attacked our ship in the gulf of tonkin etc)...it's the lying media who says that 'noone knows who jack the ripper was' with the same snicker they use when they say the average american knew that the ordinary soldier was unfairly blamed for the mess called vietnam.....they fabricate the story of the blame, they fabricate the blamers; then they chuckle among thmselves...
basically, upper class twits MUST be banned from the information media forever....cuz they're warriors for their class, against humanity

[ladjf]

2. Go Ms. Tucker. Your influence is why the AJC is a better newspaper

than the NYT.