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http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ed-tant/58450/boots-on-the-ground-must-put-feet-in-the-streets'Boots on the ground' must put 'feet in the streets'
Peace & Justice | Social Justice and Activism
by Ed Tant | September 21, 2014 - 9:06am
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, bellowed Shakespeares King Henry V as he led his countrymen into a deadly and dubious war. Once more the United States is girding for war. Once more, fear stalks the land as this nation is goaded into more war in the Middle East by the sorry and sickening actions of the latest terrorist group, ISIS. Once more we drift toward another desert debacle as Democrats dither and Republicans rave.
President Obama, who ran as a peace candidate in 2008, is being dragged into more war in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. On Sept. 12, The New York Times blasted both the president and what it called the cowardice of Congress. The Times endorsed Obama during both his runs for the White House, but in its editorial said, Mr. Obama, who has spent much of his presidency seeking to wean the United States off a perpetual state of war, is now putting forth unjustifiable interpretations of the executive branchs authority to use military force without explicit approval from Congress.
In the same edition of the newspaper, Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman accused the president of betraying the Constitution and exceeding even his predecessor, George W. Bush, in imperial hubris. The storm clouds of war are gathering and if the United States is led into war once more, then this countrys anti-war movement must put feet in the streets of America if this nation puts boots on the ground in the Middle East.
It didnt take long for former Vice President Dick Cheney to rattle sabers and push for more war in the Middle East. Cheney was a leading architect of the disastrous American war on Iraq and he was a major member of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, which called for regime change in Iraq when the PNAC think tank set up shop in 1997.
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'Boots on the ground' must put 'feet in the streets' (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2014
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)1. What If They Gave A War
And Nobody Came?
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. Wishfull thinking.
The M-I-C always bellys up to the war table.
merrily
(45,251 posts)3. Changing the definition of "war" changes everything.
Wanna make people cry? Ask elderly residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if it's not war unless we put boots on the ground.
Besides, boots are on the ground, so now, it's not even changing the definition of war, but attempting a Jedi mind trick.
Repeat after me:
"It's not war, unless there are boots on the ground and we can't hear any of the people telling us there are boots on the ground.
It's not war, unless there are boots on the ground and we can't hear any of the people telling us there are boots on the ground.
It's not war, unless there are boots on the ground and we can't hear any of the people telling us there are boots on the ground."
Repeat that mantra as many times, and as often, as necessary to remain deceived. And, if you are "really" a patriot, repeat as many times, and in as many venues as possible, as desirable to deceive other Americans as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/we-already-have-boots-on_b_5805136.html
more "no boots on the ground" cartoons
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/subject/The-Boots+On+Ground-Comics-and-Cartoons.php