The only way to get the troops out of Iraq is to get the Republicans out of Government.

Yep!

Manson said the reason he killed those people was to make everyone THINK blacks did it. Why? Blacks would take power, not be able to handle it, and then Charlie and his family would emerge from the desert (where they were holing up) and take over.

The GOP (aided by the wimpy Dems) are doing this with Americans troops in Iraq.

Scary.

It seems to me she has been saying this for at least two years.

The author I was referring to was Paul Fussell, and it was an article I was referring to:
My war:
How I got irony in the infantry
by Paul Fussell
http://www.harpers.org/archive/1982
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I wish I could remember the articles I’ve read that compared the cumulative exposure to enemy fire the US forces are facing in Iraq. If we keep going like this many many people we see on TV, or hear about briefly will be wounded for killed. Anything that puts a face on one of those tragedies bring things home. Imagine what their families, and friends, are going through.

And everything is being done to make sure the public seldom sees that human face – of either soldiers or iraqis.

120 Fern says: September 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pm:
My apologies, then. There were lots of instant conspiracy theories about this last night whent the news came out.

And I am edgey too, like some others here. Maybe the full horror of what is happening is coming home to us all, even to those of us who opposed this thing from the beginning.

Fern ‘uff. :~)

I wish I could remember the articles I’ve read that compared the cumulative exposure to enemy fire the US forces are facing in Iraq. If we keep going like this many many people we see on TV, or hear about briefly will be wounded for killed. Anything that puts a face on one of those tragedies bring things home. Imagine what their families, and friends, are going through.

120 Fern says: September 12th, 2007 at 6:33 pm:
My apologies, then. There were lots of instant conspiracy theories about this last night whent the news came out.

And I am edgey too, like some others here. Maybe the full horror of what is happening is coming home to us all, even to those of us who opposed this thing from the beginning.

I quite understand – I find the conspiracy theories a little wearying myself – sometimes a coincidence is just …. a coincidence.

And I am edgey too, like some others here. Maybe the full horror of what is happening is coming home to us all, even to those of us who opposed this thing from the beginning.