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Jul. 28th, 2004 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drydemI believe that by this point, post-cold war and with the knowledge that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was faked for the purposes of war, that most people would agree that the Vietnam War was a bad idea, a position that scads of anti-war protestors took even back in the 1960's. People then were saying that the government was fighting an unjust overseas war that would kill innocent people.
Fast forward to 2002/2003. There is once again overseas war, and once again scads of protestors saying it's a bad idea, that this is not some "pure" conflict. And once again they are ignored.
Why do people in power assume that protestors are wrong? Where were the damn liberal media back in March of last year when the protestors were saying that the information Bush had was wrong?(statements that have been proven accurate since then) Do we ever learn anything?
Fast forward to 2002/2003. There is once again overseas war, and once again scads of protestors saying it's a bad idea, that this is not some "pure" conflict. And once again they are ignored.
Why do people in power assume that protestors are wrong? Where were the damn liberal media back in March of last year when the protestors were saying that the information Bush had was wrong?(statements that have been proven accurate since then) Do we ever learn anything?
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Date: 2004-07-28 09:24 pm (UTC)I disagree. I imagine that "exicuted improperly" would tie "bad idea" (the we-could-have-won school).
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Date: 2004-07-29 01:39 am (UTC)I never heard ANYONE who wasn't on TV talk about Vietnam being bad until I was in college.