Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Frank Reid
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 11:49 pm

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Frank Reid to Angus McLeod on Thu Sep 29 2005 03:55 pm

 > Save the cliches for the bumper stickers!  You cannot support the warrior if
 > you do not support the war.  What you really want to say is something like:
 > 
 >      - Even if soldiers don't do it with malice, they're still committing
 > criminal acts.
 > 
 >      - Although my beef is with the idiots in charge, soldiers are simply
 > mindless drones who can only do what they're ordered.
 > 
 >      - A soldier could recognize the criminality of what they do, drop
 > their weapon and leave the battlefield.
 > 
 > None of those are what a soldier would consider adulation and praise!

Noone said anything about adulation and/or praise... just support.  If taxes
need to be increased so the troops can be properly provided for, one is happy
to bear the increase.  If a soldier gets held for ransom, one could donate
money to free him/her.  If a soldier gets a courts martial for refusing to fire
on unarmed civilians, one could protest and agitate to have the charges
dropped.  If a soldiers job happens to be opressing a group of foreigners in a
foreign country and the soldier happens to not enjoy it, one could support them
by rallying to get them brought home.  One can send gift packages with
brownies, or chatty letters and the occasional pack of REAL american
cigarettes... pictures of the kids, a nice thank-you postcard, all kinds of
things.  None of these things support "the war".

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