“STT”
Well, here’s the eventual explication to the provacative caller’s “I don’t support the troops” thangy, from the Clyde Lewis message board:
First, I am no pacifist, I believe in the appropriate use of a military. My father was with the U.S. Air Force on Iwo Jima, and I see his service as protecting our country form a fate worst than conquest.
Second, In 1848 my greatx4 Grandfather, Beuford W Smith came to Oregon and set up the first sawmill with his brother Titus. On the Pointer side of my family we homesteaded the land on the north side of Hwy. 26 from the zoo all the way west to the hospital where my family welcomed a band of 12 Cherokee to camp . My great GF Pointer fell in love with one of the women and married her. There was some hostile sentiment toward Indians at this time so they told most people she was from China.
I am a patriot to an extreme. However when My Country Is Wrong I love her enough to say so.
When I studied military history, for 3 years, in NJROTC I was told by our Commander that a command is not questionable but an order is.
The orders to go to Iraq and force-feed them “Democracy” are ILLEGAL.
It is wrong and anyone who does not refuse to do so is a criminal and deserves the fate of any invader.
I took an oath in High School to Support and Defend the constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. George W. Bush has proven that he is an enemy of the constitution by the “Patriot” Acts.
I will not stand for the prescribing of freedom anywhere. Not In The Name Of My America.
The U.S. Military was established to protect us and as far as I can see there is still no connection between September 11 2001 and Iraq.
There are NO weapons of mass destruction.
U.N. Inspectors told us there were none before this mess started.
George W. sent in the troops because Sadam embarrassed his father,
because he stood to make a fat fortune when oil prices rose,
and because he wanted to leave a glorious legacy in his name.
There is no country in the world that is a threat to the U.S. anymore and without this war George would have been a 1 termer just like his dad.
Third, The army is not a college fund, it is the army. If people want to go on to higher education then they should work their asses off in a job.instead of trying to get it for free by signing up to kill and die praying that they will never have to. I would rather hear that my daughter was busted for selling pot, or that she had taken a job as a stripper to pay for school than to hear that she was killed in some foreign land trying to push the will of a tyrant like The Grand Ayatola Bush.
My heros have never killed anyone.
If we want to solve the illegal immigration problem DRAFT THEM. Make them serve the country they wish to live in but that’s another issue.
As for the troops, I stand my ground. There is no way that George W. speaks for me and there is no way that the troops are dying for my freedom.
If anything they are fighting and dying to limit my freedom and this is unacceptable to me so I say again
SCREW THE TROOPS and GOD d**n AMERICA
For not stopping this when we had a chance.
and let us remember the line form Proverbs,
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall become a slave to the wise at heart.”
Take it for what it’s worth. Truthfully, I don’t take the phrase seriously, and can only really brush it aside as a rhetorical device that will have meaning as soon as the necessary changes in the English language grant it meaning.
For what it’s worth, I just received an outraged mass-email about Jane Fonda. I contemplate the aesthetic choice of centered 13.5 Arial font block letters (which I would contemplate the same if it discussed, say, Dennys cutting back to low-grade cheese for their grilled cheese sandwiches.)
(Do I now drudge up Rush Limbaugh’s recent comments in Afghanistan to the troops? Yes… no… maybe…)