Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Oh good - it's official: Iraq is now exactly like Vietnam since Joan Baez was released from her cryo-storage unit:
Folk Singer Supports Anti-War ProtestersIt's nice to see that all of the old 'players' are slowly realizing that they can make a comeback after 30+ years by equating Iraq to Vietnam.
CRAWFORD, Texas -- Joan Baez was against the Vietnam War and she showed it _ appearing at marches, once even blocking the entrance of a military induction center.
The folk singer is against the Iraq war, too, and she showed her support Sunday to protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch.
Baez took to the stage for about 500 people on an acre lot offered by a landowner who opposes the war, performing such classic peace anthems as "Song of Peace," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
Not far way is the camp started by Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq.
"In the first march I went to (opposing Vietnam) there were 10 of us. This is huge," Baez told the relatives of fallen soldiers before performing just up the road from the ranch.
For Baez, an anti-war movement was inevitable.
"It was the final tear for the overflow and you can't stop running water," she said. "Cindy's was the final tear."
I hate to break it to you three-toed sloths, but I feel I have to: Iraq is Iraq and Vietnam is Vietnam.
You're attempts to equate the two are like comparing Edsels and the Concord SST.
Your hopes that Iraq would indeed become the next Vietnam - after misnaming Beirut, Grenada, Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, Somalia, and finally Afghanistan as the 'next' Vietnam - are without merit.
In Iraq, there are something close to 27 MILLION people freed from the previous distatorship; Vietnam (both North and South) are still wallowing in Communism.
In Iraq, there's a new constitution being prepared by the Iraqi people whereas in Vietnam, there are reeducation camps.
In Iraq, the infant mortality rate is decreasing, more and more woman are experiencing personal freedoms for the first time in their lives. In Vietnam, you've got a failed experiment in communism that refuses to let go.
So - shall we dispence with the anaologies of [INSERT COUNTRY NAME HERE] = Vietnam? It's tiresome, it's a beat-to-death cliche, and quite frankly it makes you all look quite pathetic in your desparate grasping to be relevant.
If you've got a sensible solution to America's 'woes', then speak up. But for the love of [INSERT DIETY NAME HERE], please stop making inane accusations and promoting what I'd call just plain STUPID suggestions; we've seen what happens when those suggestions are followed:
Warming to his subject, Bin Laden added that "Clinton appeared in front of the whole world promising revenge, but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal…The extent of your impotence and weakness became very clear."Be a part of the solution instead of being part of (or the entire) problem.
Who is this Joan person again?
My point exactly....
Read more in Inane RelevanceThat's just sad and pathetic.
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Yogimus said:
IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ AND THE TRIAL OF BUSH, RUMSFELD, AND KARL ROVE!
AND NUKE I
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jaws said:
Who is this Joan person again?
I guess being from the post-'nam era has its perks...mainly
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Who is this Joan person again?
|| Posted by jaws, August 22, 2005 03:47 PM ||I guess being from the post-'nam era has its perks...mainly not knowing who any of these folk singers were
IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ AND THE TRIAL OF BUSH, RUMSFELD, AND KARL ROVE!
AND NUKE ISRAEL!
YEEEAAAARGH!
|| Posted by Yogimus, August 22, 2005 04:11 PM ||That's just sad and pathetic.
When did Baez come out with something new and original?
It's just like the liberals to keep going back to the worn out playbook that doesn't work anymore.
|| Posted by Director, August 22, 2005 04:22 PM ||Who is this Joan person again?
My point exactly....
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, August 22, 2005 04:30 PM ||