Just for Kicks and Giggles

to Columbia Uni. Class of 2006 and others

Alright. This just needs to come out.

War is wrong. We get it. Throwing stones at each other is not going to help whatever problem we've got. But asshat college students do not need to be making their pathetic little shows of civil disobedience, because it does NOT make you look like you stand for something, it makes you look like a fool who follows what the TV tells them.

The graduating class of Columbia University turned their backs on Sen. John McCain as he gave their graduation speech. Those little ungrateful fuckers. They have NO idea what he went through in Vietnam. Republican or not, he deserves more respect than those little jackasses will EVER earn in their LIVES. If they were TRUE patriots, they would know that he understands better than probably anyone in Washington what war is like and why it should be prevented. It is the same thing he saw returning from Vietnam, which he did, unlike thousands of other soldiers.

When veterans of WWI and WWII came home, they were given parades and bonuses at work, most had a job and a girl waiting.

When veterans of Vietnam came home, they were SPIT UPON at the airport and on the bus and on the sidewalk. They were taunted and mocked and screamed at, and college students like Columbia University's Class of 2006 walked by with posters calling them "Baby killers" after they had just spent a year or more fighting and dying for these ungrateful wretches.

I went with my father to our town's Memorial Day ceremony, where this year they would be honoring Vietnam veterans in perticular. Sen. Liberman, that jackass, talked about himself and his policies. Nothing about my father's 19 year old friend Jack C. who was killed when his jeep ran over a landmine and they couldn't find enough of him to really count, and nothing about his high school classmate who is STILL missing.

We don't need this to be another Vietnam. I'm glad to see our troops are being treated better, and are actually WELCOMED home now, but we have a long way to go. Do not hold up signs saying "Bring our troops home." Alright, so they know you like them, but how are they going to feel if they know that you think what they're fighting and dying for is crap? They VOLUNTEERED to fight. Maybe they do want to come home, but they have a job to do and NO soldier, if a true soldier, will ever crap out before the job is done.

Demonstrating against war has become the new black. I do not like Bush. But it is time to start showing some support and pride in our country and our troops. We have become too self centered. Americans think the sun rises and sets on their asses, and their biggest problem is what they're wearing. They have the time to be interseted in their hair and not dodging bullets, thanks to our country and our servicemen. But everyone's so concerned with being hip and individual that they can't get their heads out of the cloud of their own self interest. It is not HIP or COOL to show displeasure with our troops. You are not being original. Everything people are doing now has been done better before. It is time to unite and show the world that our nation has not sunk into the ruin of rap music and Seventeen magazine.

This country has gotten to fucking apologetic for it's own good. Remember why we went to Iraq in the first place? They pissed us off. Now everyone says that Bush just went for revenge. Damn right he did. But remember WWII? Why did we get into it? Because Japan kicked us in the balls in Pearl Harbor, and we weren't just going to take that. We weren't even INTERESTED in Germany and her friends until Hitler declared war on us. We weren't even going to go over. Until we had a reason.

We had a reason in Iraq. Yes, Bush is a dumbass. Yes, there were no WMDs. And that can't be ignored. But I think that as a country on a whole, we have forgotten our true purpose in our clever little catch-phrased "War on Terror."

We started this war for vengance, but that's how ALL wars start. And whether or not you believe in it, it's time to get our heads out of our asses and SHOW SOME UNITY AND SUPPORT.

posted by The Artist Formerly Known As "Katherine" @ 10:38 AM