Re: Fox News baits antiwar protesters

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>"War protester auditions here today ... thanks for coming!" read one
>message. "Who won your right to show up here today?" another >questioned.
>"Protesters or soldiers?"


Is it just me, or is the entire premise wrong?  I mean, isn't this whole 
"soldiers protect/earn/ensure "freedom" thing just flatly wrong?  How does 
anyone actually believe this stuff and say it with a straight face?  Isn't it 
just another way of justifying military intervention?  I mean, if we jsut look 
at US history from the beginning to the present, one is hard-pressed to find 
any example where any action taken by the US military ensured or promoted 
anyone's "freedom," either at home or abroad.  The only 2 really arguable 
instances are maybe the civil war and WWII, but these are BOTH highly arguable 
and the true motives/results (not to mention behavior of the actual military 
during these campaigns) reveals something other than some altruistic campaign 
for human freedom.  SO what gives?  Is it just America's historical amnesia 
that allows so many people to believe this crap?  One could even make a damn 
good argument that "protestors" and other such agitators have been most r
 esponsible for earning the degree of "freedom" and rights that most Americans 
and other people have today.  Thoughts?



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marc rodrigues
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'one power.. is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.. if there is 
a country which has committed unspeakable atrocities, it is the United States 
of America' -Nelson Mandela


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