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Sunday, 20 November 2005
Men in Business Suits
Posted By Tim Connely at 10:54 PM
 
If the major broadcast networks  had any good TV programing on Friday night, I would have missed the best show of the fall season -- The House of Representatives session about withdrawing the troops from Iraq. I was reading Hearts and Minds a book by Michael Biddy about poetry and resistance in the Vietnam era. He writes that in a 1969 issue of the underground newspaper A Four-Year Bummer, an untitled poem by a soldier stationed in Vietnam. It was signed A Peace Lover. The anonymous poem ends by accusing men in business suits. The final lines describe these businessmen
Feeling no painSeeing no bloodLosing no arms.They say, Stay and Fignt.I say, Go to Hell
Those who have not suffered the psychic and physical trauma of combat ask others to endanger their bodies. It must stop.
 
Posted By Tim Connely at 10:54 PM
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It's not only the war-- it's just as bad reight here at home, with KBR getting fat and rich ripping off the poor and undocumented. (after the poir and unportected got the short end of the stick in Katrina's aftermath.) and no one protests... but heads will roll. maybe not now, maybe not soon. but the scales of justoice ALWAYS balance in the end...
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