Support Our Troops

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:00 AM -0800 3/18/03, Gar Lipow wrote:
>So no one saw that this article was being scathingly critical of the 
>motto "support our troops"?
>
>>I will reply that I support our troops not having to kill people in
>Iraq.
>
>>I support our troops not being ordered to assault defenseless
>populations, towns, farms, and the infrastructural sinews of life that
>sustain a whole country's citizenry
>
>The phrasing throughout is mostly "support our troops NOT doing X". 
>A shorter version would be "OPPOSE our troops doing X".

We know that all US leftists, in their minds, "OPPOSE our troops" 
committing war crimes, but we also know that many -- especially those 
with no personal military experience -- feel that they cannot say so 
in public.
-- 
Yoshie

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