That would be very good Big Mick, because I'm frankly sick and tired of your & Boberts dimestore psychology attempts to analyze me, and prayers to save my sorry ass soul.

Harpgirl--you go girl. I think your idea is dead brill, and you certainly have your work cut out for you. But if your "audience" is to be mostly military, I'd downplay associations with the peace movement. There are PLENTY of military people who will support you, so long as you aren't associated with the hardcore nuns and priests who go to jail for civil disobedience.

My daughter's h.s. math teacher is a really dead on guy who saw combat in the Gulf War (and there aren't that many of them, despite the common myths surrounding the military in that war). He isn't the least bit academic or intellectual--more working class union family background. But man, does he know the score about the ways both #41's war & #43's war was being marketed and sold for mass consumption. But he is likely more the exception than the rule nowadays among military folks. I don't know, because I'm not as involved with military folk as I was many years back when I first started organizing. There may be a lot more of them who really are against what is now being sold as the fait accompli war against Iraq scenario. After all, they and their kids are the ones who end up doing the fighting.

I think at the officer level of the ranks, there is much more division over whether to go to war with Iraq, because they are looking at Afghanistan right now and going "oh shit--they want to broaden the war, which means a muddying of the mission." I don't know how much of an epiphany the enlisted have had in this regard yet.

Like that Chinese curse, we do certainly seem to be living in interesting times, don't we?