Good point, McG...

This is the very reason why if one Vietnam Vet was spit on, that became "The Story" of the right wing... Persoanlly, I don't know any anyone who would have spit at a Vietnam Vet... But, in order to maintain control, the war mongers tried to pit anri-war folks against the vets... It worked to some degree but in doing so hurt the country even more over the long run...

I mean, yeah, it was a very messed up war... Just like the one in Iraq... But the folks fighting it and the folks fighting to end it should learn something from Vietnam and that it we ain't adversaries here... Yes, the McCain folks want us to be but they are just playing that same game as Johnson and Nixon and their people played
on my generation 40 years ago... Same exact game...

I got an email yesterday that is making the rounds of this serviceman, hardly 20 years old, blasting Obama and all of his supporters as traitors and unAmerican and cowardly... Yeah, they are trying to rerun the exact same game on the generation that is stuck with Iraq... What a shame... And it's too bad this kid isn't old enough to understand that this game has been played before and it wasn't at all productive then and in playing it again all that is going to happen is that these folks who buy into it will become very pissed off adults who will suffer disporportionately from alcolism, drug abuse depression and other mental illnesses... I firmly believe that... I've seen way too many of my old friends go that way... And for what??? So that the George Bushs and John McCains can feel all smug, even elitist, about having blood on their hands???

I, for one, won't buy into that traitor garbage... And while I'm at it I'd like to go on record that I am not ashamed for any of the anti-war stuff I've been involved with over the years... Quite the opposite... I wished that those wars weren't started and fought and people died but if I had it to do over, I'd do what I did... I'm sure that Bill Ayers would, too...

B~