Americans love you, anti Bush activists
a Texas mom | 19.11.2003 10:57 | London
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a Texas mom | 19.11.2003 10:57 | London
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Keep it up
19.11.2003 16:16
All I can say is AWESOME!!! We really need help in the US. Our president is killing the world and it doesn’t seem like anything can be done. We don't hear about reality in America. We have TV shows called reality TV but that is about it. We are not hearing about the UK protests unless we search it out on the internet. We live in a total dictatorship at this point. Our Media is owned by the same corporation that own the government. Thank you one and all in England for speaking up!!!
Looking to escape
Thank you!
19.11.2003 18:42
pjtpdx
Thank you from northern California!
19.11.2003 19:17
In a news conference on 11 October 2001, President George W. Bush said "we learned some very important lessons in Vietnam." All members of the U.S. armed forces should take a moment and familiarize themselves with the important lessons that George Bush learned during the Vietnam War. Since war in Iraq was inevitable, let's do everything we can to encourage the men and women of the U.S. armed services to follow the example of their Commander-in-Chief when called upon to go into battle.
In May 1968, American soldiers were dying in combat in Southeast Asia at a rate of about 350 per week. George W. Bush was twelve days away from losing his student draft deferment (meaning that he'd be eligible for draft into the Vietnam War) when he abruptly decided that he should join the 147th Fighter Group of the Texas Air National Guard. In spite of the very long waiting list and having only scored the lowest acceptable grade on the pilot aptitude qualification test, this son of a Houston-based congressman managed to enlist on the same day that he applied, and a special ceremony was staged so he could be photographed swearing in for duty (a second special photo opportunity was arranged when Bush was commissioned a second lieutenant as Bush's father the congressman [a supporter of the Vietnam War] stood proudly in the background). According to Shrub's former commanding officer, Bush "said he wanted to fly just like his daddy." Other members of the Texas Air National Guard at the time included the aide to the speaker of the Texas House and at least seven members of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team; Bush's 147th Fighter Group was known as the "Champagne Unit" because it also included the sons of future Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Texas Governor John Connally.
Immediately following his promotion to second lieutenant, Bush was put on inactive duty status and spent more than two months in Florida working for Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Edward J. Gurney. When he wasn't handing out Gurney press releases and making sure that the reporters didn't oversleep, Bush returned to Houston for weekend Guard duty. In early 1970, Bush rented a one-bedroom apartment at the exclusive Chateaux Dijon complex in Houston, a building with six swimming pools where Bush played all-day water volleyball games and dated many of the single women who lived there.
In 1973, as Bush's daddy was being considered for a new job as chairman of Nixon's Republican National Committee, Dubya secured an early release from the National Guard to start at Harvard Business School, eight months short of his full six-year hitch, and transferred to a reserve unit in Boston for the rest of his time. "One of my first recollections of him," says classmate Marty Kahn, "was sitting in class and hearing the unmistakable sound of someone spitting tobacco. I turned around and there was George sitting in the back of the room in his [National Guard] bomber jacket spitting in a cup." Bush's acceptance into Harvard Business School surprised some, since he had graduated from Yale a full five years before.
Urge enlisted men and women to do like Bush did: avoid combat at all costs, hang out, sleep late, and lead an active social life; when called upon to fight a war for your great nation, see if you can to pull political strings in order to avoid the infantry and chose instead to spend two years in flight training in San Antonio and another four years in part-time service in your home state. If you lack the ruling-class connections, than you should be obliged to do whatever you can to follow the lead of your Commander-in-Chief: cheat, lie, malinger, and go AWOL. Desert while you can; killing and dying for ruling-class petrocrats is for chumps.
anonymous due to current fascist police state
inspired in portland, oregon
19.11.2003 19:40
thanks for the inspiration!
chispa
good show! keep it up!
19.11.2003 20:29
and kudos to the Mirror as well. Brilliant!
marianne
This American says thank you!
19.11.2003 22:05
"Civil disobedience . . . is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed
the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war,
and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . Our problem
is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while
the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem."
-----Howard Zinn,
Freedomwill