Sure could have used these teabaggers during Shock and Awe

[democrank]

I remember the despair I felt watching corporate media`s coverage of our invasion of Iraq. Wolf Blitzer seemed so pleased with his endless barrage of chest-thumpers and all those explosion graphics. Big booms everywhere, over the anchor desk and over Baghdad. It didn`t take long to hear war talk in unison...channel to channel...like a new national anthem.

Since Bush`s go-shopping talk didn`t match the blood I saw on independent news stations, I started protesting and kept it up for years. One day I saw a Vietnam Vet standing alone on a busy street with a simple sign that read....NO WAR. I thought about him again today and wished he had had some of today`s teabaggers for support back then. Odd how a wallet will get some people out on the streets faster than a war-burned child or a four-tour soldier.

There has been a lot of teabagger chatter about "fascism" today. And where were the teabaggers when Bush was grabbing people off the streets and sending them away to be tortured? Where were they when Bush began his warrantless wiretaps? His pre-emptive war? His misinformation campaigns? His outing of a covert CIA operative? His politicizing of the Justice Depertment? And these teabaggers are JUST NOW screaming about fascism? What incomprehensible stupidity.

http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx

[lunatica]

1. They were busy praying for Bush and thanking God for guiding to him

It's not their money that brings them out to the streets. It's their hate. They have a lot of hate just waiting for someone to inflame it. They get that hate fed to them by the raging talking heads like Hannity and Malkin and Limbaugh.

[Bluerthanblue]

2. they didn't feel the financial pain-

it's a terrible thing to say, but for many of the people protesting today, it is all about "me" and nothing to do with 'tea'- or principals, or policy.

"I want/don't want my money_____________" is something heard again and again and again in people interviewed by the media at their protests.

what a terribly sad statement about what many people are willing to 'fight' for.


:shrug:

Greed- selfishness, gluttony...