America We Stand as One

[gray_ghost]

LOL....not even close. But that's what this video wants you to believe. I don't know from under what rock this thing crawled, but it's making it's rounds on the Internet. Who is the target audience for this shit?

GAG.....I feel as though hot spikes have been driven into my eyes.

So the implicit assumption here seems to be that not standing as one is a bad thing? What's wrong with divided and quarrelsome? I mean that's always been the America I knew.
I like divided and quarrelsome. Anything else is too much like 'The Stepford Wives'

Another thing which bothers me is the "Support our Troops" buttons. I mean I have one on my car. My sister is in the Navy and her bf is currently in Iraq. But
why don't you see any - "Support the War!" buttons. If the war isn't right - and I think most people in their heart-of-hearts acknowledge we wouldn't be doing shit in Iraq if the country wasn't sitting on top of the second largest supply of oil reserves in the world, then wouldn't the best way for supporting our troops be to get their asses the fuck out of there as soon as possible?

Unless of course you don't have a problem with people getting killed over oil. And with the exception of a few 'Kick their ass and take their gas' buttons (which I stopped seeing once Iraq stopped being a cake walk and things started to get grim), I have seen no one expressing this particular sentiment. "Blood for Oil? What's the problem?" Or: "This SUV gets 3 Marines Per Gallon!"
Or: "They volunteered, didn't they?"

Actually, I have seen a few people express the last sentiment in words, but never in a voice filled with confidence and gusto and moral rightness.

Anyway, it's raining here, and probability beckons.

Comments

[phendog.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I agree. If you can't have you're own opinion what's the point in standing for America at all?

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

I think everyone having different opinions makes some people think too hard and it pisses them off. Their only response is to lacquer over the whole issue with red-white-and blue bullshit, and pretend everyone agrees with them.

[elizabuffy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I confess I wasn't able to watch the entire thing; the bile tends to rise in my throat when I see the flag bandied about in such an obscene manner. Ugh! *shudder*.

Another thing which bothers me is the "Support our Troops" buttons.
Well, I guess that is one thing (I'm not sure if the buttons themselves positive or not) to come of Vietnam war and the country's treatment of returning soldiers.

I do agree with you; I think it's been catagorically proven that we've no reason (aside from oil and avenging daddy) to be in iraq.

I must also admit to snerking at "This SUV gets 3 Marines per gallon."

Probablility? As in the math stuff? *thinks longingly to when she used to do probability* ...it's possibly been too long since i've had a math class

~e!

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

Yup....probability. Fun stuff =) It's undergraduate course, but it fulfills one of the requirements they have here for grad students.

I'm glad anti-war movement in US hasn't turned to demonizing soldiers like they did during Vietnam. I think part of this is because of groups like Veterans Against Vietnam War and other veterans groups educating people about what's going on.

--tyler