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In reply to the discussion: Veteran Has Had It With Republicans: ‘Don’t You Dare Thank Me For My Military Service’ [View all]peace13
(11,076 posts)I wasn't a soldier and the Bush years made me all but crazy. We met with 500,000 Americans on the Mall in DC to speak out against the surge. We piled in a bus and drove through the night to get there. There were folks of all sizes, ages , and colors there. Americans from every corner of the country arrived. For a day I was surrounded by people with the same urgent cause. Stop this war and bring our soldiers home. This peaceful demonstration with enough people to march the block of the Capitol Building and surround it on all sides was an amazing sight. I wish you could have seen that people from all parts of this country stopped what they were doing and got to this one spot in the country to speak out. To try to get the killing stopped. Unfortunately, there was only Cspan to cover the story and to the rest of the world it was as though it never happened.
I am sorry that so many were put in the awful position on carrying out the Cheney / * doctrine of massacre for oil profiteers. When Rumsfield said on the run up to the war that the troops are fungible, I knew that we were hostage to madmen! Why so many refused to see it, I will never know.