Join the UF Walkout for Peace with the Students for a Democratic Society in Gainesville. See the Facebook event for more, and use it to invite friends. For me, it doesn't impact any classes or anything, since I'm a grad student.On that note, I read a very poignant take on Iraq, using the comparison to the film Red Dawn, by Jim Downey. His major point is that rightwingers love that movie, and the ideals it embodies, but fail completely to apply that perspective to Iraq:
________________But what gets me is the complete disconnect that occurs with those on the right when it comes to applying the ostensible lessons of the movie to the real world, and specifically to Iraq. Red Dawn is all about how Americans would resist an invasion, even unto death, and is glorified on the right for this reason. People don't take kindly to being "ruled" by outside invaders or illegitimate government. Why on earth do the Republicans who still support this war think that the Iraqi people are any different from us in this regard?
Perhaps that's just it - early on the rhetoric was how we would be 'bringing democracy' to Iraq, and the repressed Iraqis would welcome us and quickly adopt our ways, because all people yearn to be free. But now the notion is that the Iraqis are somehow different from us in this regard, 'less' than us, and all we have to do is to continue to occupy their country long enough, with enough troops, as we did to the evil Germans and Japanese after WWII.
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