ON VETERANS' DAY, DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE WAR

"SUPPORTING THE TROOPS" MEANS ENDING THIS SENSELESS WAR AND TENDING TO THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY INJURED VETERANS. IT DOESN'T MEAN MAINTAINING MILITARY OCCUPATION SO THAT YOU CAN STEAL IRAQI OIL. AND AS THE BRILLIANT RANDI RHODES SAYS, "YOU CAN'T WIN AN OCCUPATION. YOU JUST LEAVE." AND THAT'S NOT IN VICTORY OR IN DEFEAT--IT'S WITH OUR TAILS BETWEEN OUR LEGS IN SHAME AS A NATION FOR EVER WANTING TO WASTE LIVES ON THIS EXCUSE FOR A WAR.

I puked when I heard McCain trying to claim "the surge is working":--even if it is. IT ISNT' A SURGE! A surge doesn't last anywhere near a year! And what does "working" mean--the mess we've made over there has temporarily died down for a second? The truth is that the bastards in this nation don't give a damn about the war. I'm glad he won, but Obama won on the economy. As the article points out below, the war barely even figured into the campaign speeches. I fault Obama and McCain for that equally.

Kucinich was my choice for democratic nominee. Remember him? He was the one who wanted the US out of Iraq immediately and looked directly into the camera on the Logo debate and said (quoting from memory) "I support your right to marry, so please support me." But fags all wanted Hillary (who did not support gay marriage ever) so they could dress her up like a challenge on PROJECT RUNWAY. "Ooh! A challenge where we get to fight over who designs her inaugural dress!" And now we're belly-aching about PROP 8 when we ignored the candidate who wanted to see us married.

Well, if the PROP 8 protests unite us as a minority who cares about our rights, I'm all for it. But remember Kucinich. If you really cared that much about marriage you would have supported HIM as the nominee. He never had a chance to win but we could have used our voting block solidly behind him to let the other candidates know that we were passionate about our rights BEFORE they were yanked away in California. Or maybe you were too focused on Britney's cunt flapping in the breeze to even familiarize yourselves with the candidates' positions on issues which are now so vital.



FROM THE NATION:

By Aaron Glantz

The War in Iraq has disappeared from the headlines. The ongoing economic crisis has Americans looking inward, wondering if they can keep their homes and their jobs, with little interest in death and destruction half a world away. According to the Pew Research Center, media coverage of the war has plummeted from an average of 15 percent of stories in July 2007, to 3 percent this February, to just 2 percent of stories during the last week of October.

The war also disappeared as an issue in the presidential campaign. Both Barack Obama and John McCain barely mentioned the war in Iraq in their final debate. In his historic victory speech, Obama said "Iraq" only once. Some say the election results show Americans demanding a "change," and in many ways they do. But they also show a collective desire to forget.

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