Letters to the Editor
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tempus
I'm sorry for what we did then and I am sorry and very angry about what we are doing there now and what is, apparently, the plan to keep the shit going, and spreading, in the future.
The realization that you have not only been lied to but also lied to yourself is a sickening one..
I took a hell of a lot of flak for being against Desert Storm, family, friends.. Would have been business associates too but I had learned to keep my opinion to myself by that point, otherwise I would have probably lost my job.
Mark Twain was absolutely correct when he wrote "War Prayer", every prayer has a spoken and an unspoken component and almost no one realizes it.
I think between "War Prayer" and Kipling's "Tommy" it is possible to chart the progress of a great many conflicts..
I posted "Tommy" on a local non-political BBS that is nevertheless dominated by right wingers shortly after the Iraq invasion got under way. I predicted that the government would screw injured vets big time.. Needless to say I was booted off by almost unanimous demand.
But I suspect there are a couple of the old timers that remember my words..