Thursday, September 08, 2005

No Respeck For the Music Lovahs

I’ve been meaning to post on this for a while, but with all the trouble that’s gone on in the past week, I’ve only wanted to post on this just now. When I was at the Summer Jam concert on August 21st, I found this flier while waiting in line, and now that I’m posting I can get rid of this piece of trash:

Don’t Die for a Lie

Did you know that this concert is co-sponsored by the U.S. Military?
Military recruiters are here. Do you think they’re here for the music?

As more young Americans refuse to join the military and fight in Iraq, the armed services are showing up wherever young people gather and lure new recruits.

Young Americans, of all backgrounds and most political persuasions, don’t want to travel thousands of miles from home to occupy Iraq and kill or be killed for no good reason.

The Iraq War was NOT launched to eliminate Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction.” Iraq had no such weapons.
The Iraq War was not launched to combat terrorism. The terrorists who attacked the U.S. on September 11th were not Iraqis and had nothing to do with Iraq.
The Iraq War was NOT launched to promote democracy. U.S. leaders want a government that favors U.S. oil companies and provides the U.S. with permanent military bases, even though Iraqis of all ethnic and religious backgrounds want genuine independence.

Join young people across the country in pledging that you “will not serve in the U.S. armed forces as long as U.S. troops are occupying or waging war in Iraq.”


Typical, far left bullshit. Of course, if you were to survey the intelligence of the people that went to the concert, I’d be willing to bet you’d find most of them would buy this. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll tell you: Iraq under Saddam’s regime had minor weapons of mass destruction hidden in large weapons caches and already had purchased most of the ingredients necessary to build nuclear weapons, Saddam’s regime gave money to Al-Qaeda for various purposes and trained many of Al-Qaeda’s operatives and I can’t say that the last bulleted statement is untrue because I’ve never really heard anything much to that exact contrary, but I don’t think the person who wrote this flier has a track record of being right. I’ll just leave that one up for any readers to decide.

Oh, and if you ever find the urge to hand out fliers like this at a concert or a movie theatre or any such event, just remember that no one really wants to be reminded of this crap when they’re going someplace to escape from it…unless it happens to somehow confirm their ideology.

I almost forgot to mention: the concert turned out bad enough as it was.

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