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November 25, 2005
Alaskan in Exile
by Neil Zawicki

    Are you ready for this? A big, face-smashing Marine – a Vietnam combat veteran and former drill instructor, and 42-year Pennsylvania congressman – has called for the immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. He made the plea while choking back tears.

    That’s Jack Murtha. He’s a career Hawk, and holds particular sway in Washington, and he wants our troops home.

    “They’ve done their duty and it’s time to bring them home,” he declared, calling the administration’s Iraq policy flawed and wrapped in illusion.

    Of course, Dick Cheney pounced. He attacked Murtha as un-patriotic and cowardly. To which Murtha said, “I like guys who've never been there to criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there, and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done.”

    It’s true. All these administration guys that are so keen on war have no idea what it’s like to actually be in combat, because they went to great lengths not to go. Now, they attack guys who have been there, and have the audacity to call them cowards and to question their patriotism.

    This is the state of our nation today. The Vietnam generation is in power, and there is a noticeable difference of opinion between the guys who went and the guys who didn’t. The guys who went are against torture and prolonged war with no clear objective, and want very badly to limit the suffering on both sides. The guys who didn’t go want to charge up the hill and bomb cities and hang prisoners by their toes.

    I’ve always valued experience over theory. I’m with the guys who went on this one.

    And the guys who didn’t go have no right to make policy and speak as if they know what they are creating by sending troops to war under the banner of lies.
   
    These days, the Hawks like to compare everything to World War II. Saddam Hussein is Hitler. The terrorists are the Nazi Party, and if you oppose U.S. policies, then you would probably be soft on Hitler and on the Japanese.

    Okay. Let’s pretend it is World War II. You’ll recall that when the Germans were driven from France and then Belgium, women who befriended the German soldiers were publicly scorned. Their clothes were ripped and their heads shaved and swastikas were carved into their foreheads.

    I say that when the GOP is voted out, when the Bush regime is finally shamed and loses power, that everyone who worked for them or supported them should be dragged into the street with shaved heads and ripped clothes, and the letters GOP should be carved into their foreheads, and they should be kicked and spat upon until they wander lonely and crying into the night.

    Isn’t that the way? Don’t we have to shelve our civility to beat the terrorists? The GOP is filled with thugs. They deserve brutal treatment when vanquished, because that is what they respond to.

    I’ve never seen combat or torture or social brutality as a result of years of war, but what does it matter? It is clear from the example of our leaders that experience doesn’t count.

    Maybe instead we should just put Cheney in the ring with Jack Murtha.
   

   



   













 
Neil Zawicki, exiled Alaskan, is Editor at Large for Insurgent49, a former reporter for the Alaska Star, and winner of the Alaska Press Club's 'Best Columnist' award. He is now living out the rest of his days in an undisclosed location in Oregon. He can be contacted at -  neil@insurgent49.com
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in-sur-gent (in sur'jent), n. 1. a member of a group which revolts against the policies of its leadership.