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Dancing_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:36 PM
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OK, now it is really time to bring the troops home!(Not my pretty cousin!)
Edited on Mon May-09-05 10:38 PM by Dancing_Dave
OK, now it is really time to bring the troops home!!!


No one really knows how many hundred Iraqi people have been killed in just the last week or so--reporters don't dare to get around in that country anymore. No one knows exactly how many U.S. soldiers have been killed either, because Rumsfeld's Pentagon finds clever ways to keep to the official "killed in Iraq" stat misleadingly low. And what about all the troops coming home horribly maimed, and I live near an army base and we have plenty here. And plenty of military families who are sick and tired of it. The way the Bush Administration's oil grabbing operations are going, they will need a draft very soon--the military recruiters are getting totally desperate. Right now, the army is threatning to send my pretty cousin Sarah off to Iraq before she even completes her nurses training...they're just so desperate for soldiers in "transportation" to replace the ones that are already permanently disabled. My cousin would make a great nurse for the wounded, but considering her driving, I don't like the thought of her driving through a minefield. Neither does she. She's trying to resist.

It's hard to make sense of the confusing disaster in Iraq, but it should be perfectly clear that the disaster cannot end until our troops are out of there. The Iraqi's can sort it out for themselves.

I have a little anti-war internet radio station (musicians, let me know and I'll get you in!)
http://www.artistlaunch.com/artist8.asp?artistid=7635
It's Called Only Music Can Stop the War at Artist Launch

I'm glad for the protestors and activists who steadfastly opposed the the Bush Administration's endless war policy through thick and thin. I think we've reached the point where it's time to break out into a full-scale groovy multi-cultural peace movement like what took form in the 1960's. The scepticism of young people has reached a point where something energetic and consciousness-raising can happen.

And the Bush Administration is also getting ready to attack Iran...lets really get some alternative culture going strong this summer! Within such a counter culture we can share our knowledge even if the corporate media monopolies refuse to print or broadcast a lot of the most important stuff.



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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:39 PM
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1. I have seen the recruiters leaving the High School every day for weeks at
the end of the school day when I pick my Daughter up. I have warned the school she is to have no contact with them She is so silly she would sign up for the money. I have to watch her like a hawk.
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Dancing_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:49 PM
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2. They try to bribe the children with huge money
"Hey kid, how would you like several grand of spending money right now"?

Then when they graduate, they're shipped off to Iraq, come back disabeled and find that funding for VA hospitals and rehab have been cut--their lives ruined by a dreadful scam.
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:51 PM
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3. Not my kid
The school isn't that dumb. If she so much as looks at a recruiter I will have their heads
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