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...We’re the ones who change the signs [on the convention floor] from ‘We Salute the Troops?? to ‘A Nation of Courage,’” said Daniel Suhr, a student at Marquette University...
...didn’t we ever get replays of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell assuring us that Saddam Hussein was not a threat just a year or two before we invaded Iraq? Meanwhile, Moore shows us what we do see—news anchors vowing blindly to support the troops??as his justification for presenting information the way he does. He’s not trying to give us a balanced piece of journalism. He’s telling us the other side of the story...
Allan’s concerns, while understandable, dangerously miss the point. To be sure, those who have chosen to serve their country still warrant national support and admiration for their courage. But criticism of American military action doesn’t detract from the larger merits of the troops??nor does prevailing heroism make it okay to ignore obvious wrongdoings...
Furthermore, Zapatero’s position on Iraq hardly marks a dramatic shift in Spanish policy, a point that has received surprisingly little attention in the press. Zapatero’s pledge to remove Spain’s 1,300 troops??which constitute less than 1 percent of the total Iraqi occupation force—by the end of June, failing a United Nations mandate, certainly didn’t win him any friends in the Bush administration. But the UN is quite likely to issue a mandate, making the chances of a Spanish withdrawal slim...
...Bush so often calls heroes need only visit a local Veteran’s Hospital or look at the government’s refusal to acknowledge the damage of Gulf War Syndrome to see just how much the government takes its own cries of “Support the Troops?? to heart. It’s time for our political officials—city, state and federal—to put their money where their mouths are and do more to celebrate those who risk their lives for a living than buy them off with hollow praise. That...