This month marks the fifth anniversary of Bush’s silly grandstanding on the USS Abraham Lincoln about the mission in Iraq being accomplished. It’s almost unbelievably comical that he happened to chose May Day for his gaff. I can’t believe it’s been five years and there is still no end in sight. Really, what else is there to say except that, if McCain Bush 3 manages to get elected, I can’t even begin to think how much longer we’ll be there.
That reminds me of the other important anniversary that this month marks. It’s the fortieth anniversary of May 1968, the student initiated protests in France that are considered to be the watershed events that led to a sea change in French society. I’m not saying that I wholly agree with the politics behind May 1968 and I’m not suggesting that I want to see the widespread worker strikes that followed the initial student protests in France, but I can certainly respect that the French people were pissed about their government and did something. Maybe we could use a little of that in the United States now.
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Susan // May 1, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Again I come from a lot of military in our family but I don’t agree with Bush 2 at all. Its become the desert of death over there …pretty similar to the jungle of death during Vietnam.
So maybe all us blogger friends should stage our own protest. =)
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