----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Murdoch" <MurdochLance at netscape.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Support the Troops reduxe, or, why we are losing the anti-war
Chuck0 said:
> If anything can be said to counter
> the simplistic, patriotic message of "Support Our Troops," it could be
> something that brings up the shitty treatment of veterans after the war.
>
> Perhaps: "Support Our Troops: Don't Treat Them Like Gulf War Veterans"
...how about "Support Our Troops: Don't let the army blow their brains out on Louisana Avenue if they come back and rally for veteran benefits"... Zinn only gives it 2 pages in his book, forget about regular school books...for our foreign friends here - in 1932 WWI veterans went to Washington to rally for a bill to push some veteran's bonus they were supposed to get back from 1940 or so to 1932, because they needed it in 1932, when they were broke, unemployed, possibly homeless and even going hungry. The house passed the bill overwhelmingly but the senate killed it. Then the army marches out, blows some polack veteran away, gives some lady a miscarriage who was there with her husband because she didn't know the army was going to attack the veterans, plus whatever assorted shooting and clubbing over the head, then the army goes in with tanks and so forth and burns the camps the veterans had been in and so forth and so on.
========================
Douglas Macarthur...........................