correction Re: VLVL 4: War, politics and love
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 28 13:01:01 CST 2003
pynchonoid wrote:
>
> I meant to write, "had he NOT been opposed to the War
> before was drafted..."
>
> --- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If indeed RC did serve in combat in Vietnam, he
> > would
> > be another solider in that same grand US imperialist
> > tradition that jbor has recently lauded here re the
> > US
> > wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. If RC was a
> > draftee, as so many Vietnam combat vets were, he
> > would
> > have found himself in a real dilemma: had he been
> > opposed to the War before he was drafted, he might
> > have been just another patriotic American hypnotized
> > by the sort of propaganda that the Bush
> > Administration
> > has used to enlist the support of the people like RJ
> > (speaking of funny-sounding self-chosen names) and T
> > for their criminal war in Iraq.
Hey, WASTE guys, can anyone put a stop to this? Please!
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