F*ck the troops update
Iraqnow
Does ignorance and arrogance know no bounds?
This is from The Daily Collegian:
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That said, perhaps some readers will understand why my friends and I rip yellow ribbon "support the troops" magnets off of cars or wherever people have affixed them. By ripping off these ribbons, we find a way to deal with our guilt, as though with each ribbon swiped we take back a life that was taken by this senseless war started by our senseless president and those who support him.
I will never say, "support the troops." I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, "I don't support the war, I support the troops" as though you can actually separate the two. You cannot; the troops are a part of the war, they have become the war and there is no valid dissection of the two.
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Hey, college boy! That's not how you use a semicolon.
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Every time I pass a person in uniform I look long and hard at them and all I can think inside to say is "I'm so sorry." I want to apologize to them, to their families and to their friends.
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You have something to apologize for after all, you fool. It's just not what you think it is.
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I listen to talk radio very often. It's important to know who your enemies are. The pundits on the radio are the pinnacles of guiltless, shameless wonders, and I am jealous. It must feel good to believe without question, to benefit from the blind belief of young men and women who chose to join the armed forces,
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Look, kid...I was on the mailing list of a group called "Refuse and Resist" back when you were being potty-trained. Revolution Books, a communist bookstore in Honolulu, Hawaii, used to set up tables at my reggae band's shows. I know who you are and where you're coming from.
Believe me: You aren't the blind one here.
Splash, out
Jason
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