[Peace-discuss] RE: Supporting the troops? Who's responsible?

[Phil Stinard]

It's an interesting article, but its premise is flawed.  The war in Iraq is 
not about who's "God" is right or wrong, it's about economics and ensuring a 
stable oil supply.  To be sure, support for the war is being garnered by 
marketing it as a holy war to people with certain religious views, but that 
is a minority viewpoint.

What's sad about the article is that the author is trying to drum up 
religious hatred (or more precisely, hatred of a particular religion) to 
attack anyone and everyone who serves our country.  Even Ricky, in another 
post to Peace-Discuss that I'll comment on later, says that he has a veteran 
friend who is troubled by this trend.

--Phil


>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:59:37 -0600
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Supporting the troops?Who's responsible?
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>   I agree with the thrust of the following article. The author poses
>some forceful questions: Are youth in Iraq responsible?   Has the
>fact that they may have been swindled remove their guilt? Are we all
>just pawns of our environment and upbringing? Was Ward Churchill right?
>
>Of course, we all can't be put in the same basket, but are we
>Americans, as a people, any different from the Good Germans of WWII--mkb
>
>Published on Friday, March 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
>Why I Cannot Support The Troops In Iraq
>by Doug Soderstrom
>