how can you tell people you want to be their leader and commander and chief of the military when you just like corporation's are people don't know the difference in the meanings?He's dead wrong, for the same reason thatcorporations are not people.People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They thrive. They dance. They live. They love. And they die. And that matters. That matters. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.Romney continues to deny the fundamental humanity of human beings, while promoting the lie that non-human entities deserve the full rights of citizenship.Republicans largely agree with him, in practice if not in theory.
is that some kind of royal endorsement?
Why does this matter?It matters because we are at a fundamental crossroads in American history, where unborn children are given more rights than the women whose bodies are nurturing them. We're at a time in history where money is treated as speech, and therefore can be used to drown out the voices of ordinary Americans like Elaine Brye.Funding our "military" could mean paying government contractors for no-bid contracts, while denying veterans access to jobs, housing, and education.Funding "troops" means ensuring that we don't put them in harm's way without giving them the compensation, protection, and dignity they deserve. Funding our "military" could involve funding the machinery of war without protecting the human rights of warriors.
some one e-mail Willard a link to this, just to explain the second part he already knows and that is the reason for the truth gaffe. recognize
War is bad enough, in all the ways that it dehumanizes us. Wars force warriors into life and death decisions that go far beyond anything that the "pro-life" movement should be able to tolerate.
I've been a therapist with military families for the past several months, and I've heard the stories. One gunner told me of the time that he lost it and indiscriminately shot into an Afghan village, killing a family's goat in cold blood because he was tired of the insurgent's bullets whizzing over his head. Another soldier told me of the time that his helicopter lost control and he nearly died as a result of the equipment failure. The nightmares haunt him to this day.
Helicopters don't have nightmares.
What irritates me most is this idea from the Republicans that "peace through strength" means entitlement to bully other human beings in order to obtain military advantage. On this point, even Joe Biden's claim that we should pursue Bin Laden "through heaven and hell" is troubling to me.
And while I agree that those who commit atrocities should be brought to justice, I'm still troubled sometimes by the knowledge that Bin Laden was never brought to trial and we have detainees in Gitmo who are still being held simply because they're suspicious - not because they committed crimes but because they know someone who has.
i can not add anything more pertinent than these words. God Bless our Troops and the one's i left behind in Vietnam 1967.
