Gothamist: Five Years Later, United States Still in Iraq

Bottomless Chips

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:54:04 -0500

Cowboys, I think you're confusing what Civil disobedience is. Think Rosa Parks, Vietnam sit-ins, etc. Saying the surge is working is a tool used by the hawks while the south is (being) lost. Then we'll have to surge there, then surge back to this place and that place. Killing our way out of this problem is impractical, immoral, but most of all unsustainable for our military and our tax dollars.

MJG

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:43:11 -0500

Is disobedience necessarily bad?

Pharmer

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:32:12 -0500

=/ With all the money spent on the war, why we can't come up with the same amount to spend on public health, medical care and so on.

thedroog

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:35:03 -0500

civil disobedience? this is still the united states, right? by law, we can peacefully protest that which we don't believe in or stand behind, yeah? the gothamist staff really needs to pull their collective heads out of their asses.

damir

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:25:44 -0500

I almost got used to the mainstream press talking about American war casualties as the only ones worth mentioning. It is very disappointing to see that there is actually much wider acceptance of this equivalence of "American life" and "human life".

HowBoutDemCowboys

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:10:38 -0500

"There are many acts of civil disobedience planned for today" I'm hoping this is a misprint or just a complete fuckup. Disobedience implies that what these people are doing is illegal or in some way wrong. What the author should have said is "There are many civil protests planned for today".

cwbuecheler

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:06:43 -0500

Five Years of "Viet Nam: The Sequel" and counting. Fantastic.

bxbrian

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:49:56 -0500

this is probably just one of many comments that will appear which will be easy targets for scrutiny, but nevertheless, i just had a thought. this surge business, could one argue that it's (possibly) working because it's placing the number of troops initially necessary to secure Iraq inside the country years after they should have arrived? it seems insane to me to call this surge a success if you're simply sending over the initially required amount of soldiers to keep some semblance of order and sanity in the country. seems to me that calling the surge a success is like driving on a flat tire for three years, getting it patched, and keeping along your merry way thinking of how genius you were in the first place.

tnturner

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:24:31 -0500

Happy Anniversary! ?