John Kerry on Iraq: how quoting facts became “unpatriotic” in right-wing America

Telling the truth about the US troops in Irak can cost you dearly in misled, gung-ho ‘patriotic’ America anno 2006, something Kerry experienced first hand, when he actually put factual material in his remarks about the US ‘liberators’, uh, ‘forces’ in Irak: the less educated you are, the higher the chance you end up in that part of hell, currently called Irak.

A quote from the outstanding printculture.com
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“The irony of all this is that even though Kerry –a pretty centrist Democratic all told, and hardly a class warrior—would never, ever have deliberately said what he said, the fact remains that the less educated you are the more likely you are to end up in, say, Iraq. Which does not mean that educated people don’t enlist or that the uneducated who do enlist aren’t intelligent, but simply that ever since the end of the draft the U.S. military has consistently and undeniably presented itself as a career opportunity, a way to get skills or to pay for college for people who don’t yet have employable skills or who can’t otherwise afford college. Obviously the reasons why people join the military have changed dramatically in the last few years, but I think it is fair to say that the majority of the troops who were initially sent to Afghanistan and Iraq –especially those in the National Guard—were not getting what they had signed up for.

In the meantime, the president, Cheney, and an army of talking heads in suits and ties, standing behind podiums and sitting behind desks talk and talk and talk –thanks to the benefits of their educations – about the nobility of the sacrifice of other peoples’ kids, a sacrifice they themselves have never had to seriously contemplate making because they have, as Cheney said of his staying out of the military during the Vietnam War—“other priorities.”
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Ignorant, Fox-brainwashed lower class America will continue to “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree”, while putting yet another “we support our troops” sticker on their bumper – having no clue was is actually going on, while another 100 of their sons and daughters were slaughtered in October, along with +1,000 Iraqi civilians, in what has become a neverending religious Shiite-Sunnite civil war.

Poor, poor, misled America.