Bury Me Broken

Iraq War Dissent

Kos at DailyKos:

"A Marine regiment that took heavy casualties last week in western Iraq - including 19 killed from a Reserve unit headquartered in Ohio - had repeatedly asked for about 1,000 more troops. Those requests were not granted."

Solution. Solution. Solution. What is the solution? What will we do differently today that we didn't do last week and last month?

Many times when we are discussing the present situation, my conservative counterparts think we are beating a dead horse for purposes of political advantage, because we are out of power in Washington, because we are happy that the 'Republican' war is not going well. Once for and all, that is not the case.

As a former soldier with a baby brother just getting back and his older brother held past his twenty years on a carrier by two years and just getting back, this war in Iraq is personal but that doesn't define it for me. As a citizen responsible for reading, digesting and having an informed opinion and having determined before the war that the action is unnecessary, this is the defining principle for me. In a very close second is that I grew up poor and my people are poor people with little opportunity that go to the military when unemployment for African Americans is double whites in major cities. Infantry are my people.

Finally, the whole unpatriotic spiel is a dangerous and corrosive far right tactic that has only divided and poisoned America. Forget the fact that dissent is an integral thread in the fabric that is America. Take a good look. Half of us are riding around with W stickers and half of us are riding with W stickers with a red slash through them.

Personally, I would rather be out of power in Washington on the strength of conservative ideas being stronger than liberal ones than the present employ of the false, divisive tactics that have folks deciding whether to let me in traffic based on my bumper sticker.

[Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/8/93816/81841]

posted by niteskolar @ 11:18 AM