I really did not want to
Posted By: ravenswing on 2007-04-26
In Reply to: Sheesh....Clinton didn't go to funerals either.... - Observer
revisit this issue for obvious reasons but I did hear (I did not actually hear him; I read his email as presented by Barbara Starr) a Sgt. James Wilt ask questions in the same vein that new guy and I did; why flags at half mast for VT and not soldiers (in the US). They honor the dead at their respective bases in Iraq and in Afghanistan but not here, he said. Evidently he emails the news stations quite often. They know him, think he is credible. This particular statement was intended to be published (he hoped) in a US Newspaper or maybe become a magazine article. Barbara Starr said it was about 5 pages long and quite striking (whatever that means). So, I am not the only one who had this **gut feeling** of **what is wrong with this picture.** You on the right are correct that my first instinct was to think why is w at VT and not at funerals or whatever. That was my first gut kneejerk reaction and I pay attention to those kinds of reactions; they are not thought out ideologies. It is something deeper. At any rate, what I think I really felt was that this war is, in my opinion, not our (Americans) war. I don't mean it is Iraq's war, not ours, I mean, we here in the US aren't at war. The military is but we aren't. Here it is like nothing is happening except to those directly involved. The rest of us just go about our business as usual while all this carnage just goes on and on and on and on. It just does not seem right to me to make an enormous deal over the VT dead and not make much of a deal about US soldiers and not a single thought to innocent Iraqi men, women and children.
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