I got an interesting note from my friend Judy today:
We made the correct decision to fly our flags at half mast when the students were murdered last week. What is the difference between their promising young lives of the students and the daily deaths of young soldiers in a wasted war? Shouldn’t our flags fly at half mast until there are no soldiers being killed in the Bush/Cheney war?
I can’t think of a better symbol for the antiwar movement than a Old Glory at half-staff.
A GOOD IDEA TO STOP THE WAR!!!!—RE START THE DRAFT THEN TAKE THE BUSH, CHENY, ROVE, PERINO, SNOW, RICE, AND MC CAIN KIDS AND PUT THEM ON THE FRONT LINES WITH NO PROTECTIVE ARMER AND NO TRAINING LIKE OUR TROOPS GOT! WOW WATCH THE WAR STOP DEAD FOR THE WAR IS ONLY A BUSH AND CHENY IDEA FOR THEM TO MAKE THEIR MILLIONS OFF OF US WORKING CLASS AMERICANS!—AT THE PUMPS!!!!!
IT IS A DAM SHAME! THAT STUDENTS AT A COLLEGE GETS MORE FAME AND GLORY EVEN WHEN THEY CHOOSE TO GO THERE! THAN OUR GOOD AMERICAN BOYS ARE GETTING IN THE ARMY OF WHICH THE DID NOT CHOOSE TO GO TO IRAQ!!! YOU DO NOT SEE 1 FLAG AT HALF MAST FOR THEM! WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? IT IS SAD for THE DIFFERENCE IS OUR BOYS ARE BEING KILLED AND MANGLED UP AND THEN NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF ALL BECAUSE OF A STUPID WAR! — I SAY IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENY AND SEND THEN TO CUBAN PRISON!!!!!!
My question is where is Osama Bin Laden? Our resources (read here the lives of our Military) would be better utilized bringing him to justice and eradicating a Al-Quada than trying to bring peace to a nation who will not know peace because of long held religious beliefs. People forget the cost of war. Not that there are not times that the cost is justified, but I question the cost vs outcome analysis of Iraq. (BTW, I, my wife, and our Fathers are all veterans and my middle Son is in ROTC.)