This was so good I blatantly stole it from Chidyke, over at CorrenteWire, who stole it from some comments somewhere:

Stolen, blatantly, from the boards:

We’ll send you into the desert without sufficient armor, in insufficient numbers, with no coherent plan for the occupation; we’ll do so under false pretenses. We’ll condone torture; we’ll call the Geneva Conventions quaint. When you get home, we’ll cut vets’ benefits. To any vet willing to speak his/her mind in opposition, the examples of Max Cleland (insufficiently patriotic), John Kerry (liar, exaggerator, traitor) and John McCain (mentlly unstable) will be brought to bear by the people around a President who avoided service in the Champagne Unit of TANG.

That’s a message to the troops, if ever I’ve seen one.

ProfWombat | 03.28.06 - 9:32 am | #

Are you listening, guys?

Vets who read here (all 12 of you) and others who aren’t vets (three of you) should, I hope, be discussing topics like this with any uniformed member of the Armed Services you come into contact with. I’m not suggesting you advocate desertion or going AWOL. That’s wrong. It’s a crime, and can conceivably doom that service member to spending the rest of his life hiding in another country, separated from his loved ones. But I see no harm in individuals doing their best to counter the 24/7 pro-war propaganda served up on Armed Forces Radio and TV over there in the sandbox.

The two most successful methods of propaganda are the Big Lie, endlessly repeated (Bu$hCo and Fox News) and telling one small part of the truth and having it relate to the experience of one or two listeners. That’s how you gain credence with your audience, and prepare them for the next small grain of truth. It’s a slow process; you’re actually re-educating your audience.

To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie:

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick andthey won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.