"This war doesn't touch that many people in America"

[katinmn]

That's what Bill Mitchell, of Atascadero, California, told W. Leon Smith, publisher of The Lone Star Iconoclast, during an interview after midnight this morning.

"Sometimes, we'll tell people that our sons died in the war, and they go, "What war?"

Mitchell traveled to Crawford yesterday to be with his friend, Cindy. Cindy's and Bill's sons died the same day in Iraq. Bill's son was leaving after 11 months in iraq, and Casey had only just arrived.

Exerpt:
MITCHELL: I don't know whether Americans just have too many distractions or are too busy with their own lives, but, you know, this war doesn't touch that many people in America.

ICONOCLAST: What do you think it would take to fix things?

MITCHELL: The mothers of America to all stand up.

It may take the draft. If the recruiting continues to fall short and they are forced to bring the draft back, maybe that might wake people up. But people aren't affected by it. Sometimes, we'll tell people that our sons died in the war, and they go, "What war?"

http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/31-40/32news13.htm

[etherealtruth]

1. I'm a mom ...

I'm pissed.

As someone here stated a few months ago ... "if they want my kid(s) they'll have to pry them from my cold dead hands!"

[opihimoimoi]

2. Mothers stopped the Korean Conflict, The Nam Conflict, and now,

Bushies fuck up too.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. I read that this morning. Very moving.

My friend here in town made me laugh this morning. We were buds on the Dean Trail last year.

She's worried sick about her son. Trying to figure out whether to go to Canada or what, because he's the perfect age, and she's rabid about him not being caught up in this.

They were getting ready to head for British Columbia-- she practically had a job lined up and everything. Then he had a tantrum and insisted on staying here to finish school, so she relented.

Today, she told me the first day of school is tomorrow, but she had a brilliant idea to solve her problem. She'd take him with her to Crawford, and make sure they got arrested so he'd have a felony on his record and be unacceptable to Chimpy's minions.

She's kidding, but there's almost a note of, "Hmmmm...you mean that might work?"

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[katinmn]

5. Haha. It would be better than the alternative.

This article got to me because the way Mr. Mitchell pointed out how apathetic Americans are.

They cannot honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and their families because they are so completely out of touch and beyond caring.

Along with all the lies, that has to hurt these families a lot.

[jojo54]

4. "What war?" WTF???

I feel we need to do the slapstick routine of rapping on the head of America and saying "Hello, is anybody home?"

[katinmn]

7. I feel the same way. I even got miffed this afternoon when someone

asked me who Cindy Sheehan was.

I just wanted to say, "Oh, go back to the mall you dumbass." But I thought better of it.

Americans are, by and large, ruefully uninformed. And that's the way the regime likes it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Oh but it's such a BIG mall!

A really pretty one with bright colors and shiny things! The 8th Wonder of the World! You're so lucky to live there! :eyes:

That's all the American people really want, isn't it? A "United Colors of real life!"

My co-workers were just mystified that I went all the way up there and didn't go to the freaking mall. :boring: I had to explain to them how much more important it was to commune with dead relatives and live friends, as opposed to browsing The Gap.

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[UTUSN]

6. Actually, the Romans Knew This

So long as "wars" (far away) didn't BOTHER the LOCAL Romans, uh, it was -------------O.K.