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To: Neocon who wrote (9879)5/26/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Neocon, the Vietnam war ended as soon as the upper class started to get effected. When it was the poor white trash or the black population which was dying, few cared. When the dying hit the Hamptons, protests started in droves. And even Cronkite turned against the war. Cronkite's changing nuances every night, had a pretty dramatic effect on the publics perception of the war. Especially when CBS started showing films of kids getting killed to back up those nuances.

Roughly the same thing is happening now. If we started drafting kids in the Hamptons for a ground offensive, the screams from the media would be too loud for politicians to ignore. The same cowards who call people racist for not supporting this idiotically lead war, would be the first group of whiners running to Canada or Oxford to avoid a draft.

You see, the annoited ones are just too important to sacrifice in war. Their only involvement is in sending other kids to die so they can feel they have done something.

Michael
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