the turning point has been reached . . .

Do you remember the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war? I do. It was the week that Life magazine published photos of all of the servicemen and women killed in Vietnam the previous week. Page after page after page of photos, probably 30 or more to a page, and probably 30 or more pages. That Life (which I still have somewhere) brought home the cost of the war to middle America and marked the beginning of the end.

And it's happening again. In the current Newsweek, across the top of the first eleven pages of the news section are photos -- eight per page -- of all of the servicemen and women killed since the Iraq war "ended" on May 1. You keep turning the pages, and you keep seeing more photos. Powerful message, and one that surely will mark a similar turning point for the Iraq non-war, imo.

Damn. You may be right. The floodgates might be opening. I can't wait to see the Chimp's poll number next month...

Stay tough, people! Keep speaking the truth! I smell chimp blood!

as weak as it will be......it will create MUCH fodder to probe the entire "policy" of this administration.

It concludes that funding for the 9/11 terrorists came from SAUDI ARABIA -- "intentionally or unintentionally." Doesn't matter.......we gave them a 1st class plane ride home the next day, cut Saudi nationals from the immigration round-up, and never, just never, called the Saudis on anything, from helping with the investigation to requiring they comply with our new laws "or else face regime change."

THIS will be the turning point for throwing the ENTIRE administration out on their butts.

When Walter Cronkite finished his broadcast during the Thet Offensive by giving a heart-felt editorial against the war. Shortly thereafter, LBJ went on the air himself, and said "I will not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination of my party for another four years as your president." No matter what he did during the rest of his turbulent last year in office, and no matter what Richard Nixon did during his first term, Americans would never again support involvement in a war like Viet Nam. It was the "tipping point" both for LBJ and for the war he escalated. And it now looks as though that point has been reached for Dub with Iraq, as well. x(

Too many journalists today are old enough to remember Viet Nam still, and even though their numbers include many of the media whores who have regularly genuflected to Dub & Co. the last 2 1/2 years, they now see the past eerily repeating itself in another generation. The lies, the needless death on both sides, and the site of demoralized Americans being told that they are in fact not coming home anytime soon, as their buddies are daily ambushed and killed around the corner from them. When those among our leaders are proven liars, especially about the justification for war and the scores of dead Americans resulting from that war, to quote Al Gore, "It's time for them to go."

Let's all work as hard as we can next year to keep that promise to our families, our neighbors, and our friends. And, especially, to our troops and veterans who have been so brutally betrayed. :mad:

B-)