Reply #15: This only helps the Democrats [View All]

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It weakens the mystique of our troops, makes them look less pure, more like other troops. It implicitly draws a parallel to Iraq, and the longer Iraq remains a quagmire, the more that parallel will continue.

Wars are sold to the public by dehumanizing the other side. Part of the protest against Viet Nam was the realization that we were killing people, not just "enemies." We were killing families in their own homes. The Republicans, starting with the most vile human of our times-- Reagan-- managed to distract the public. They turned the peace activist argument that we were killing our troops for nothing and claimed that the troops were dying because of the peace activists, because we weren't supporting our soldiers. It therefore wasn't possible to "support our troops" and be concerned for the lives of others.

We've got to change that mentality. W is a small-minded half-wit of no particular intelligence or ability. Not a one of us would hire him to manage a business or a crew of any size. If they can use him to start these wars, they can use anybody. The comparison of Bush to Hitler may be exagerated (or at least premature), but the specter of the way the Germans were convinced to support naked military aggression applies to us. If we as a nation can't see that what we are doing is wrong, then we will keep doing it, and we become the next Nazi Germany. We're on our way already, a little ahead of Nazi Germany on the invasion score board for this early in the game.

Articles like this that remind people of why war is wrong are only good for Democrats, liberals, and any other decent people.