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i know many many anti-war activists.
none of them make the slide from opposing this war in iraq to slagging individuals who are in the military.
but what is the boundary being policed here?
are you "anti-military" if you think present levels of defense expendutires obscene for example?
are you "anti-military" if you hear reports from fallujah about the use of loud metal as a soundtrack for fighting because it brings killing people more into line with a video game and find that to be kinda strange?
what exactly is at issue here?
it seems to me that this attempt to confuse protest of a war that, in this case, is to say the least a problematic undertaking, with some kind of animosity directed at military personnel is of a piece with many elements of the revisionist pseudo-history of vietnam.
but this is only background.
what conservatives seem to really hate is opposition to their positions.
what seems to be the case is that there is personal animosity from many conservatives directed at people who oppose the war in iraq--leaning on the pseudo-history of vietnam, and reverting to form ideologically, they project their motives onto the opposition and then blame the opposition for the whole mess.
i dont see much of anything more than that going on here.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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