War disappeared. Soon to be replaced by gay marriage and flag burning

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http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/OPINION/608270351/1047

Sunday, August 27, 2006


The war in Iraq is the war that went away.

Television hardly covers it. The print media might give it a paragraph on page 3. The president and most Republicans are more interested in gay marriage, flag burning and stem cells.

World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm -- I've been in one and lived through the others. Until they were over, they never went away. American history doesn't have any war that just went away. Maybe it's because wars just don't go away. Maybe the so-called war in Iraq is not a war at all.

Just because President Bush calls it a war doesn't make it one. Maybe he calls it a war so he can hoodwink the American people into supporting huge expenditures and accepting the loss of thousands of American and Iraqi lives.

Maybe it's an exercise in nation building. Or maybe it's retribution for a failed assassination attempt on former President George H.W. Bush.

[izzie]

1. He can not let Congress go to the other party.

So I guess the 'liberal' press is going to help him out and get the war off the front page and get those nice 'liberal' things like flag burning on. I think I understand how the other side thinks but we need an infrastructure that takes taxes but them I am 'Commie' because I think that way. Right? Oh well so we go back to the 1880's and re-start the 'liberal' movement all over.

[xchrom]

2. nationalism, nativism, racism

otherwise known as -- god, guns, and gays.

here's what republicks know how to do -- go on the offensive and stay on the offensive.

they KNOW that a good offense beats a good deffense every time.

[JackintheGreen]

3. AP: President Og announces War on Fire

In a surprise, Sunday morning press conference, President Og announced "Fire bad! Me no pee without burning in belly. Me call on on Congress to enact immediate legislation to make fire illegal."

The press was taken aback by the president's apparent gaffe at admitting he had contracted an STD, but when asked for clarification by Helen Thomas, the president attacked her with a club.