workers are fed up

[joanna bujes]

At 10:38 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Unfortunately lots of the Desert Storm generation favor right-wingers
>politically, not because they respect the transparently nonsensical
>official reasons those right-wingers give for sending U.S. soldiers into
>danger (believe it or not, construction workers aren't quite that
>stupid!) nor for the clearly-understood underlying reasons for these
>wars - they're aware that whatever megaprofits guys like VP Cheney and
>Army Secretary White make from invading Iraq, not a cent will ever
>trickle down to their class - but because they fear that any anti-war
>efforts will somehow undermine the war effort and thus get more of our
>soldiers killed.  It's the Vietnam myth, "if it weren't for the Fifth
>Columnists at home, we'd have won fast and hard and most of those
>fifty-seven-thousand wouldn't have been killed."

That's very sad. But my experience agrees with yours: I don't personally 
know any Viet Nam vets or Gulf War vets who are pro war....as for why they 
support the right wing...I'm not sure that I completely agree with 
you...but thanks for writing.

Joanna