"You had a weekend of love and peace. I've had a lifetime of freedom in a country that has had to fight many wars. Why not get a group of JM listers and fly to Iraq? Play Sadam JM, and tell him you want peace. Then if he listens, and you come back alive, then call Washington and tell them how easy it is."
This is very unfair. Why doesn't everyone who supports Bush and war do the right thing - don't expect to send other people to fight wars you support - you enlist, you go wage war, you go do it, don't sit at home and say send others, and no damn excuses - you want war, you fight it yourself. No excuses. Quit sending others. Talk is cheap. You want it, you do it yourself,. If you won't do it yourself, then don't sit at home all cozy and send others in your place. Go and kill and be prepared to be killed. Do it your name, not in mine. And do it yourself. And when the thousand reasons are listed that you can't do it yourself, knowing that you sit at home, listening to Joni Mitchell and expect other people to kill and be killed while you sit in all the comforts of home and listen to Joni Mitchell. That there are those of us who think there are other ways, better ways, to respond to real situations in the world, we don't deserve the ridicule and the unfair cheap shots that we got in the paragraph that I quoted. Vince, father of a Marine, a Marine who may be an asshole to his former girlfriend and child, but still is my son, the son that people who have no intention of putting their lives on the line for their beliefs, they want my son to kill and be killed while they sit at home - you want sacrifice, sacrifice yourself, not my son. I believe there are other ways that do not involve a war that would kill the sons and daughters of many people on all sides.
