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  • major9874 12/28/2007 9:27:37 AM

    i think the t-shirts are a part of free speech. if arizona thinks
    they should stop using soldiers names without their families
    permission, how about banning war memorials? would that be
    acceptable? (and by the way, the memorials ARE being sold.
    contractors are paid to make them.) KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY FREE
    SPEECH-- oops, too late.

  • Liz THomson 12/27/2007 3:56:59 PM

    IN my opinion - Tshirts and other antiwar statements - should be
    left alone - they are , in essence free speech. A lot of those who
    have not experienced the death of a son/daughter/friend, tend
    ignore the realities of death - what it is - its violence, its
    permanence - its ability to destroy families and more. IT is time
    we all woke up . These young people are being sent to war - they
    are dying - THEY DIED.

  • dasq 12/27/2007 2:55:16 PM

    "......military men are dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in
    foreign policy....." henry kissinger sec.of state (nixon add.) from
    'the final days' war criminal extrodinaire and truly pathetic human
    being

  • SnakeOiler 12/27/2007 2:15:45 PM

    """Most have a choice when it comes to being shipped to a war zone,
    Posted by: Maggie katzen""" Except of course all the National Guard
    that signed up to protect their home state from floods and such,
    and then got sent to war.

  • Maggie katzen 12/27/2007 1:53:11 PM

    um, yeah, much better to use the dead as political props for your
    own agenda. Most have a choice when it comes to being shipped to a
    war zone, seeing as how there isn't a draft in place. Please leave
    the dead in peace.

  • festivemanb 12/21/2007 8:20:29 AM

    "legislators should keep their laws off our dead friends." Yeah -
    that's a slogan that makes me actually want to be a libertarian.
    But seriously, one of the most horrible things about war, I think
    (besides the death and the PTSD and the death) is that it turns
    normal human beings into pawns of politics. It seems less damaging
    to a person's selfhood to have their name printed on a picture than
    to have them transported into a warzone, right?
    http://bmackie.blogspot.com

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