Relying on a site like that for an "objective" view on the war would be like relying on Focus on the Family or Jerry Falwell or someone like that to offer you reliable information about safer sex and birth control; or like using High Times for an objective view of the dangers of marijuana use. I do not trust the claims of a "conservative media bias", nor do I trust those who claim that the media has a "liberal bias." That is why I read multiple media sources--you can't just trust one.
For every person you find who is praising American action, you will find one who wishes the troops would go home and America would mind her own business. Therefore, this anecdotal evidence doesn't sway me one way or the other. I can go to
www.indymedia.org and find all the anecdotal evidence I could ever want, but I use other sources (BBC seems to have a view that the US doesn't have about this, even though Britain supports the war right along with the United States) to make my decisions regarding this war.
The Secret Service gets PAID to protect the President. I do not respect Bush; I do not respect his position of authority. I do not have to. It is my right; not my duty, to respect or disrespect the President. There is nothing in any of our lawmaking documents that calls for unquestioning respect for the leader of a nation. Do you think our Founding Fathers really had all that much respect for George III? Think about it.
You know, I'm not sure that protesting is futile right now. Maybe someone who was alive during the Vietnam era can verify this, but wasn't it after the mass protests (the later ones involved veterans and parents of those killed) that mainstream America finally woke up and realized that what we were doing in Vietnam was not right? I know Vietnam and Iraq are different, but there is no harm in using the two as comparisons. Regardless, and it's not because I'm bored and unemployed (believe me, I'm neither), I will be at every single protest I can attend until this war is over and our troops come home.
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