Reply #18: Not by me

[sabrina 1]

I couldn't agree more. Maybe people ought to read some of John Pilger's devastating, heart-rending reporting of what happens to innocent civilians when one of our drones strikes their neighborhood.

I am astounded at people who I thought abhorred the killing of innocents, who now are willing to rationalize it. So, the rightwingers I argued with all those years who claimed it was politics, not principles that was driving the 'anti-war crowd', weren't totally wrong. Sometimes I feel like a fool, but I really thought it was about principles.

War is archaic, it is never about anything but resources and/or the sale of all those weapons we spend so many trillions of dollars on. And it's about killing, mostly innocent men, women and children. We did NOT go to Afghanistan to get Osama Bin Laden, nor did we need to invade an entire country even if that was the reason.

I was against the Afghanistan war from the beginning, and I'm not going to change my mind because a Democratic president is in the WH.

But to say I'm disappointed in Obama would be wrong. He warned us if anyone was listening that Afghanistan was going to be his war.

The problem is no one can get to be president in this country if they are for peace, if they can find ways to solve problems without war.

I don't think they want to win. Perpetual war makes people like Dick Cheney et al very wealthy and very powerful. There is no good reason for us to be at war anywhere, unless you're Dick Cheney and his chickenhawk, warmongering, profiteering cohorts. And they know that they will always have half the country supporting them depending on which party is in power.

Not disappointed in Obama, but I am disappointed that the anti-war movement appears to have died because of party politics. I did not expect that.