Comments on: ‘I Don’t Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier’s Life’

By: The Democratic Daily

The Democratic Daily — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:38:36 +0000

John Cole… Welcome to the Party…

Note to John Cole of Balloon Juice: Welcome to the Party, the Democratic Party that is. Now that you’ve become the “Newest Member of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy,” it’s great to see that you’ve jumped right in with both f…

By: William A. Stoddart

William A. Stoddart — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:10:54 +0000

I served in the tragic Vietnam conflict. That war, like this one, represented a failed policy. It was a political war, driven by politicians whe didn’t give a dam about the loss of life. General Westmoreland, like General Patreous, was a total fraud. He was a lackey of Presidents Johnson and Nixon, as General “Betray Us” is a lackey of Bush’s. President Johnson always assured the American public that there was, “a light at the end of the tunnel.” However, there was never even a glimmer of light. The administration concocted the alleged attack on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. It has been well documented that the attack never happened. But. Johnson fabricated the attack in order to esculate our involvement. The Iraq war was also concocted based on false intelligence information. Even when “The Decider” was told not to incorporate the alleged sale of African uranium to Iraq, as it had already been proven to be false, he included it in his 2002 State of The Union Address anyway. While in Vietnam, I served in Military Intelligence Corps with the 25th Infantry Division. I saw enemy bodycounts inflated on a daily basis by the military to give the false impression that we were winning!! I saw servicemen get killed because we could not fire rockets back because the enemy was firing from a “no fire zone.” Fire could never be returned in a no fire zone for fear that we might kill an innocent civilian.
The lessons of history have taught Bush and company nothing!! I note that the continued violence in Iraq is being totally down played by the media. Just today a suicide bomber hit at a downtown Bagdad bus top. Many were killed and injured but there was no mention on the 11:00 news. Bush has the audacity to consider himself a “compassionate conservative.” This sorry excuse for a president has proven time and time again that he has not one ounce of compassion in him. His own mother, Mama Bush, when asked about the horrible conditions inside the New Orleans Superdome were the refugees from Katrina were housed said, “”Well they are mostly blacks and poor whites, so they are probably use to living this way.” The acorn sure doesn’t fall very far from the tree.
In just a few short weeks the US death count in Iraq will reach 4,000! So, we can then erect another memorial wall in D.C. to rival the 58,000 service people who also died in vain in Iraq. Peter, Paul and Mary in the 1960′s sang, ” How many more must die until they know that too many have died? The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.” The same lyrics are sadly still true four decades later. Buzz

By: Ginny in CO

Ginny in CO — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:12:00 +0000

Hi Darrell,

It has been a nightmare I’m very glad to be out of. Missed a lot and it’s great to be able to get back into politics. Looking for a job, again. But I can work agency until something comes along.

I’m not sure where or who I heard talking about the whole strategy of getting peoople to go to war and kill other people. Ultimately it comes down to building a group of freinds who go into battle and once one of theirs is attacked, they go into response. It very little to do with the values, patriotism, etc.

By: Darrell Prows

Darrell Prows — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:14:48 +0000

(Hi Ginny. How’s life been treating you?)

What guys like Petraeus and Bush don’t understand is that when troops are ordered to die for the Generals next star, or the Presidents legacy (and I understand that I’m treating his motives too generously), the compliance rate goes way down.

By: Ginny in CO

Ginny in CO — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:06:11 +0000

Alternet has another one:Low Morale Has U.S. Troops in Iraq Pretending to Patrol A diffferent way to avoid combat than was done in Vietnam. Maybe it will cut the numbers coming home with PTSD and TBI.