The title to this post is from a bumper sticker shown in “Generation Chickenhawk,” [1] a video shot last week by Max Blumenthal. The scene? The College Republican National Convention in Washington D.C.
Here’s proof that our young Republicans love wars as long as others do the fighting.
Blumental’s ten-minute video is well worth watching if you’re looking for unassailable evidence that neocons are actually members of the political equivalent of a fundamentalist religion. Interesting to see that Tom Delay still has a willing audience.
In his blog at Salon.com, [2] Glenn Greenwald describes the core mentality of those who remain pro-war:
We need to prove to the world how powerful and tough and strong we are by kicking ass and starting wars and putting our boots on the ground and getting our hands dirty and bombing and invading and fighting like the Real Warriors we are because Civilization is at Risk. And the way we should do that is by sending those people — the ones way, way over there — to go and fight and risk their lives in the wars I love.
More than ever, Iraq remains a battle over hearts and minds. The site of the battle is not only Iraq, however. The battle is being fought right here in the U.S., with the corporate media serving as an ally to those who prefer the status quo. The status quo is the inevitable result of the lack of information regarding the U.S. invasion of Iraq. [3]
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