Military families speak out against Iraq war

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7216073.htm

SAN ANTONIO - A number of Texas families with husbands, sons and other relatives serving in Iraq gathered in a drizzle Saturday morning in this military-dependent city to voice their opposition to how the U.S.-led war is being handled.

"This is how I show my support," said Candance Robison, whose husband, Army 1st Lt. Mike Robison, is serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the heart of anti-American insurgency.

"If my husband got killed and I hadn't done everything I could to bring him home, I'd never forgive myself," said Robison, a 27-year-old mother of two from suburban Dallas.

Shannon Sharrock, a Baylor University law student, says her heart stopped when she heard that a Black Hawk helicopter from the 101st Airborne Division had gone down near Tikrit on Friday and that all aboard were dead.

Her husband, Capt. Joseph Sharrock, is a Black Hawk pilot attached to the 101st Airborne.

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Hopefully, we will see more and more of this sort of thing.

[Noordam]

1. The Military turning on WhistleAss more and more

and when you are packing men and women off to hell whole number 4, Rove can not spin it with the military.....

[maryallen]

11. Oh hell, they'll just ...

Hire more mercenaries.

They don't get medical benefits and retirement.

[westernunion]

2. CALLING A FRAUD A FRAUD

Bill Clinton was impeached by a Republican-controlled Congress for lying about sex.
Bush and aides lied the United States into a stupid, unnecessary colonial war that has so far cost over 305 Americans killed and 1400 seriously wounded, many thousands of Iraqi dead, and US $1 billion weekly.

Lying about sex is an impeachable offensive; lying the nation into war is apparently not.

I was no Clinton fan, but give me his iffy morals any day over Bush’s Mussolini-like strutting. Senator Edward Kennedy is absolutely correct when he calls Bush’s Iraq war a `fraud’ concocted to win the next elections. Fraud and an epic blunder.

This week, Bush received a glacial and scornful reception at the United Nations that symbolized the world’s contempt and disgust for his administration. Not since Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the speaker’s rostrum has a major leader so embarrassed himself and his nation before the world body

[Lorien]

3. Welcome to DU, Westernunion!

:hi:

Great post-agree on all counts.

[Vis Numar]

4. the worm turns

and Bush squirms.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Thanks Billy

The families are increasingly speaking out

Now for those not familiar with this... this is VERY MUCH
unprecedented in US Militar History... the military community
may grumble and complaint but it is expected to show a stiff
upper lip to those outside the community

I know I am a Navy Wife

This war has been bungled to the point that families, some
married to officers, are just going, WE NEED TO SPEAK OUT.

The bungles include logistics (the boys don't have what they
need to do the job, and I mean from things like water, to
body armor, to jammers)

The bunbles, well includes going to war on choice.

This is not good for BushCo

Oh and the wives are taking HUGE risks with the careers of their
husband, by the way.

[lovedems]

6. There are so many victims of this administration

first and foremost the military families and the families of 9/11. They are not only victims because of an unjust war, but they are losing their much needed benefits. There are also those who are losing their jobs, their unemployment compensation and ultimately their homes. The school districts are victims, the environment is a victim, women have now become victim, the US treasury is a victim. My list could go on and on but I think my point is clear, more people have suffered under this administration than have prospered. They suck bad and deserve to lose in 04.

[dArKeR]

7. All these people should be interviewed into web movies, all put in one

place. militaryfamilies.com. It seems logical to do this and some moral Democractic person should fund it. It wouldn't cost that much.

Then do some advertising. 'What the GOP Media won't let you see.'

[jonoboy]

9. Ive just seen a doco here on public tv

in Australia similar to what you are saying..made by Netherlands television, but what are the chances of it reaching many people in the States ?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Not much. With Colin Powell's son running the FCC, the Repugs

hold a sword over the neck of every Television and Radio outlet in America.

It could be financial suicide for a large media corp. to ignore this administration's wishes. This coup has been carefully planned.

[Don_G]

8. We Will See A Lot More Of It

After the rotation home of the first group, they'll be talking to the media and their relatives without supervision or control of their CO's. I don't think Dimbo will like it much.

[LiberalTexan]

12. Incredible

Texans speak out against the mad cowboy.

GOTTA LOVE IT!

I'd love to give each of them a hug. Some of them traveled five hours from Dallas just to send this message to "us".

[IndianaGreen]

13. "I'm against the war, therefore (to them) I'm unpatriotic."

"They think you can't speak against the war without speaking out against the troops," she said. "I'm against the war, therefore (to them) I'm unpatriotic."

The family members said their relatives serving in Iraq know they are campaigning against the war and support their right to dissent.

And we must support them by calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, and for Congressional hearings on the decision-making process the Bush regime followed to drag this nation into war.

Heads must roll!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. The RW spin seems to be pushing for a charge of "aiding & abetting"

the enemy if someone questions this administration.

McCartheyism times two.

[peterh]

15. It’s interesting to note….

That back in 1846, the Whig party called the US-Mexican War, the Chief Executives War….it wasn’t popular with Congress or the people. The lies for justification by the President were well known within the halls of Congress and outside. Yet, Congress did little under the perception of “giving aid and comfort to the enemy”….that could be regarded as treasonous…echoed the Whig Journal.

But, that begs the question….what is to be considered the serious offense? Protesting under the possible perception or the dereliction of one’s oath of office?

There appears to be some interesting similarities between the Mexican War and this one.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

16. I hadn't thought of that. Floats for me. I've been silently seeing

similarities between this and the Philippine Invasion at the turn of the 20th Century.

[peterh]

17. My dad had left me 8 volumes….

Of the American Review: A Whig Journal…..after reading the first few pages of the 1847 v.5 issue, I was shocked as to the similarities between then and now with regard to the wars. I especially liked this passage….

“We do not know how far Mr. Polk has been allowed to become acquainted with the real state of public opinion on this subject. It not unfrequently happens that the ruler of a kingdom is nearly the last man in it to be well informed of what the people think of him and his government.”