With a mother like that, little Alex will not wait to go to Iraq just to get away from her.

The appointed OT text from the Revised Common Lectionary for this Sunday is the Elohist story of Abraham and his near sacrifice of Isaac. It seems we have not yet learned that God requires more of us than sacrificing our children.

Charles Cosimano & jestrfy:
You both get it!
What this mother and Michelle don’t get is that Iraq isn’t about freedom at all. It’s about installing another guy like Saddam under the auspices of a ‘parlimentary government’ that will work with the CIA to bring in billions for companies like Halliburton and Blackwater.
If Iraq was worth dying over then Michele could enlist herself along with all the other Bush-bots and FOXaholics.

“It seems we have not yet learned that God requires more of us than sacrificing our children. ”
Um…sorry but you guys need to understand that it’s men and women that volunteer to fight our war. We aren’t letting moms draft their children.
This woman understands the sacrifice that is necessary for freedom, she understands the value of freedom because she lived under communism. Maybe people who’ve always been free don’t appreciate that feeling.

“What this mother and Michelle don’t get is that Iraq isn’t about freedom at all.”
Why don’t you tell it to them:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/06/bush-as-liberat.html

Michele (one l) wrote,
“This woman understands the sacrifice that is necessary for freedom”
Let’s not even argue the notion that she is an actress.
If Iraq were about freedom, I would accept the argument. It was not, it is not. As much as we would like to think the military is enlisting adults – full and wise and ready – for the most part the enlisted folks are kids, often fractured and confused and many are feeling like there isn’t anything else for them. We don’t even treat many of them like adults – they cannot drink, they cannot rent cars, they pay extra premiums for insurance, and some cannot even own property. Children pay the price demanded by their elders, even if the elders are mistaken. There is no viable “oops” in war.

“Let’s not even argue the notion that she is an actress”
This guy says he knows her husband:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/06/rebuttal-to-mov.html
I suggest you make your comment about the military there and see what type of response you get.

The Alex ad was goofy to begin with. Not only was it clueless about the all-volunteer army, the presence of US soldiers in places like Germany and Japan, and the idea of children actually becoming independent when they grow up, but it seemed to think that in 17+ years, President McCain will still somehow be in office.
In short it was ignorant, foolish, and silly.

“What this mother and Michelle don’t get is that Iraq isn’t about freedom at all.”
what michele is trying to say is that we didn’t invade iraq because saddam was in cahoots with bin laden (like republicans said), or because saddam could rain down a mushroom cloud upon us in minutes (like republicans said), or because saddam had weapons of mass destruction (like republicans said). it was all about liberation.
we invaded because saddam was in cahoots with liberation. we invaded because saddam had the ability to drop a liberation bomb on us. and we invaded because saddam had weapons of mass liberation. don’t you remember those excuses? we weren’t misled, they were misquoted.
what michele is trying to tell you is that the u.s. should invade every country that is not a democracy in order to impose our style of government upon the world, and in that endeavor, 100 years is worth it. too bad she can’t tell that to the tens of thousands of dead iraqis. i wonder if they could vote whether they would vote to be dead under today’s iraq or still alive as they were before they were “liberated”.

The Iron Curtain dropped and Poland stood ready to begin its new life about 20 years ago. Given the age of the woman in the ad, I have to wonder just how much she lived under Communism. This is the sort of ad that snames and enemy, creates a fear, and then tries to sell the concept. We have lived for 7 years and too many months under the cobwebs of fear. It is time for us to pull the cobwebs down and to look beyond the cozy shadow of fear. Disingenuous ads like this offer no real hope, only the temporary relief from artificial anxiety.

IF we were really fighting for freedom. liberty in the US would not be in the cross hairs of federal legislation via the ‘Patriot’ Act & other freedom stealing legislation. McCain/Fiengold would have been laughed out of Congress & would never have passed. NAFTA KAFTA, the SPP, other alphabet treaties & the North American Union would never have been tolerated. They should never have been brought up in the first place if freedom & liberty for all were really the US gov’s bottom line motive.
This lady is living in an uninformed la la land. She would actually be proud for her sons to be ground up in the war machine that should not even exist. Ah, the price of illegal US interventionist foreign policy;
Ron Paul was our only real hope as he has the strongest ‘get back to the US Constitution” platform. If the US is not returned to Constitutional law soon we are doomed.
After a couple of years of the CFR presidency of BO, HC or JMc, is it OK to come back & say “I told you so!! You should have supported Ron Paul!”?