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grumpyolddude

Damned right, we were!

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G5_Todd

bah lets just disband the military and hand out flowers to those that want to kill us...

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"....and when you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."

-General Franks

dippin

Because as we all know that is the only alternative to engaging in needless wars...

uncle phil

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Cynosure

Meh. The majority of those dirty fucking hippies eventually put aside their protest signs, their peace symbols, their tie-dye shirts, their marijuana and their LSD (well, maybe not their marijuana), and went on to get white collar jobs and become part of The Establishment.

izzzzy

makes you wonder what could have been.

G5_Todd

fight in a war, then you can make your own decision, rather than what the media tells you

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"....and when you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."

-General Franks

gardens

Am I the only one who noticed how the Peace Sign at 1:07 is only WHITE hands and that one of the hands appears to have a replica of a Marijuana leaf on it

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I'm not a Poser, I'm just softcore.

JumpinJesus

Wow, I didn't realize hippies were so polarizing.

Dab a little patchouli, man. Dab a little patchouli.

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dippin

Because the only way to know if a war is justified is by being a soldier, right?

G5_Todd

a needless war, unjustified or both...what ever your opinion is...its your opinion...just like I have my own from actually being there and seeing how justified it is....

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"....and when you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."

-General Franks

KirStang

Because you know the way to stop Mutually Assured Destruction was to just hug it out. Just hug it out man.

Baraka_Guru

This thread is getting HI-larious.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

dippin

You talk as if all we have are opinions. Whether or not a war is justified is more than a matter of opinion. It is a matter of determining if the justifications are a- acceptable and b- truthful.

In both Vietnam and Iraq we know that justifications were either unacceptable or untrue.

A view from a soldier on the ground doesnt change these things. A view from the ground doesnt make the "domino theory" any more right, doesnt make the government of South Vietnam any more democratic, doesnt make the accounts of the gulf of tonkim incident at the time any less false. Similarly, a view from the ground doesnt make the wmds and the iraqi cooperation with al qaeda any less false.

Gloves

Our Goverment really sucks Man>the Hippies were right, I grew up in the 60's.

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shakran

Let me get this straight. If we haven't fought in a war, our opinion on whether or not it's OK to send soldiers off to die in battle under false pretenses is invalid.

In other words, unless we've been in battle, we can't possibly know what we're talking about when we say that it is bad when our soldiers get killed for bullshit reasons.


Speaking of bullshit. .

Fly

can't wait to plant some dope this year..........



the dirty fucking hippie that i am.

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SterlingStudios

CinnamonGirl

Nice video. Thanks for posting (says the girl who probably would've been a hippie, but was born thirty years too late.)

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

FuglyStick

This is true. They sold their idealism as cheaply as everyone else.

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

LoganSnake

So?

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Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

ring

......sometimes the best way to manoeuvre underground,
is to be on top.

G5_Todd

I'll be sure to let my friend Michael's parents know he was killed this summer for bullshit reasons.

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"....and when you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy."

-General Franks

dippin

The fact that people have suffered real losses in a war doesnt make the justification to go to war any more valid. In fact, it should be all the more reason to question those reasons.

macmanmike6100

the hippies of yesterday may have been morally right in the past but too many have become part of the very establishment that, today, is resistant to change, ill-equipped to solve the challenges of today, and too proud to admit it.

ASU2003

The 'Jump you fuckers' sign in front of the NYSE on Wall Street was great.

You do have to wonder what kind of world we would live in if the hippies had been in power for the last 50 years.

biznatch

Flowers, and brownies doesn't sound too bad to me. No, but seriously, it might be scary.

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