the Iraq occupation is The Vietnam War on crack cocaine

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1020-06.htm

Published on Monday, October 20, 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle

Soldiers Ripe to Resist?
by Ruth Rosen


PRESIDENT BUSH is busily trying to convince Americans that the war in Iraq is a phenomenal success. Meanwhile, a recent survey conducted by the military newspaper Stars and Stripes found that half of the troops described their unit's morale as low and a third complained that their mission had little or no value. Many viewed themselves as sitting ducks, rather than soldiers engaged in war.

Last year, I heard a historian describe the Iraq war as Vietnam on crack cocaine. It was an apt comment. It took years, not months, before large numbers of civilians and soldiers questioned the sanity and cost of that war.

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1. IMO it will take alot longer

to get this kind of effect in Iraq. NOam Chomsky wrote something abou this topic once and theorized that essentially an anti-war movement started within the military during Nam'. But this was in the larger social milieu where being anti-war was "cool". Today people are isolated, many cut-off, from any meaningful social--political discourse. There are staunch advocates of the war and the war is seen as defensive against terrorism. Even though Saddam has not been linked to 9/11 a majority of Americans think he is linked and Bush has pushed this lie relentlessly.

The socio-political setting is much differant than during the Nam' era. This war, if it goes on for long, is going to sap the money and vitality of the country and the people will turn on themselves as they scramble to keep their piece of the pie, a pie being gobbled up by the BFEE and its corporate cronies. You can bet that Bush will try his damndest to keep people fighting with each other in the tradition of Kulturcampf. The Iraq war can be a catylist for opposition to Bush or the poison that kills popular unity. If Bush is never identified as the source of the problem and removed, jailed whatever then we are doomed, IMO.

What happened in California is an indication of just how idiotic and ill-informed people are in this country. They voted in Skeletor and wife over their outrage at their states fiscal condition, a condition perpetuated not by Davis, but by Enron. The person they put in office immediately let Enron off the hook. This kind of thing is little different than the circus in "Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome".

Of course the whole election process is suspect so that puts another twist on it.