Quote:And she said these are being egged on by a negative American media and the bashing of the President. They figure if they keep it up, they'll make us close up shop and go away and they can have their way. She has already voted for Bush.
Foxfyre, how would you have acted if you thought your president had taken the country into a needless war that had been justified by misinformation and hoked-up rhetoric, costing hundreds of US lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives? If you had seen the tragedy of this pre-emptive war as clearly as some of us did, would you have supported this president who was directly responsible for it? Would you have kept quiet when it became clear that Bush was going to commit terrible acts in the name of all of us in this country. We cry as bitter tears as you do over the deaths in Iraq but ours are more bitter because that war never should have happened.
The shame of the media is that it did NOT speak out before the war. There were very few voices of dissent, perhaps out of a misguided feeling that such words were unpatriotic. After the war began, there was virtually no dissent or Bush-bashing, as you call it, in the press. In recent months, there has been some small surge of media reporting about the real world, most of it attendant upon continuing revelations about the weakness of our administration's evidence as it marched determinedly to war.
So our negative media is now purportedly the cause behind the insurgency? And do you really think that those of us who opposed the war are not clear-minded and pragmatic enough to insist that the troops stay in Iraq until we clean up the mess we created? (I cannot resist adding that there would be no mess and no insurgency if we had twice the number of troops on the ground.)
Of course the majority of soldiers support Bush! They must convince themselves, somehow, some way, that the cause they might die for is a just one.
