For those DUers frustrated by apparent focus on trivial issues

[Sparkly]

Yes, compared with the important matters of suffering, destruction, torture and death, things like old memos at CBS and phony photo-ops of a crying child seem trivial. But please don't think it means people don't care deeply about the larger issues.

As I see it, these are the little skirmishes in the larger battle. Engaging in them is more productive than weeping at the horrors this administration has wrought, although I'm sure we've all done that as well. Whatever it takes to oust BushCo, and start the end of what they've wrought, is worth it -- no matter how inane or trivial, how large or how small.

It does matter that the White House is engaged in a cover-up of B*'s military "service," and it could matter to the election.

It does matter that rightwing nuts would impugn a union that supports Kerry and fake a media story (or several), and it's worth exposing.

Does it matter as much as what's going on in Iraq? No, but these are the smaller battles toward the larger goal of restoring sanity to both foreign and domestic policy. So when I see photos posted as reminders of that goal, I sense there's some frustration; but please don't think DUers have "forgotten" -- I think we're all on the journey, just following different paths at any given time.

[LuminousX]

1. The war was lost for want of a nail

Sometimes the "trivial things" are the very things that help the cause more. We cannot allow stories like the Parlock Syndrome story to get out of hand. This is actually something we can do about it and it behooves us to do so. I can't stop the war in Iraq personally, but I can contact media and help educate and distribute information.

[Sparkly]

2. Exactly

That's what I'm tring to say. :)

[Vincardog]

3. The story vs the truth

We have to begin to think for ourselves. For example Why did the WTC collapse? The story is that the steel frame melted and collapsed. If Steel melted at the temperature of burning Diesel then truck engines would melt. The facts are terrible. We still need to face them

[Guaranteed]

4. Personally, I just want to

kick the shit out of these guys. Totally humiliate them. Make them ashamed to call themselves Republicans.