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Deja Vu All Over Again
During our Vietnam fiasco there came to be an organization known as "Air America." Maybe you saw the movie with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
It was a covert CIA group of mercenary pilots and supply facilities in Laos. Funded through support or, perhaps a better way of putting it, ignoring the poppy fields which funded our enemies and kept Americans dying.
Well, in the words of that great philosopher, Yogi Berra: "It's like deja vu all over again!"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_as/marines_in_poppies
Once again our government is ignoring the elephant in the room and sacrificing the lives of American troops. How long will "We The People" allow this travesty?
Call you Representative! Call your Senator! Call the White House! Not that it will do any good.
Comments (3)
I am very saddened to see this division within the Democratic party. I think it is obvious to all that when the Clintons saw victory slipping away they decided to use the only tactic they knew would get them the vote for sure.......
I shake my head in shame at how far we've come (in a negative way) in such a short period of time. Perhaps the Clintons were able to unearth what was always there under the surface anyway who knows, but I think when we look back at this moment in history our grandchildren will be shocked at our behaviour pretty much like the younger generation today when they see clips of the civil rights movement or learn about the suffrage movement.
To them, they can't help but wonder what the big deal was with giving women the right to vote or allowing blacks and other minorities the same rights as everyone else and horrified at the means that were used to stop those movements for change that in the end no amount of domestic terrorism could stop.
While I am optimistic that Obama may still win the nomination (although anything is possible at this point), I just hope the remaining voters vote based on who they really think the best candidate will be (either one of them) and not based on the utterly destructive and divise tactics we have been witness to over the last 6 weeks or so.
May 6, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is a disgrace how our party is being destroyed before our eyes. The right wing goal of taking us back to the 50's with segregation, mandatory prayer in school and the end of freedom of choice may become reality again as this battle for power divides Democrats and prepares them for an easy defeat in November.
May 6, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops, wrong post sorry!
May 6, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
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