Libertarian.

If you find that party call me

Just be an Independent

Those who rationalize the morality of supporting the troops make the immoral possible. We are either opposed to the illegal war in Iraq, or we are not. We can support the victims of war on all sides, without supporting the killers, and without encouraging the killing. To do otherwise is to lack the conviction that the Iraq war is illegal and a crime against humanity.

War is murder. We cannot be in support of murderers while opposing murder. I will not honor that which makes murder and war possible.

Questions were frightened out of a lot of folks after 9-11. And when Bush sent bombs and mines (cluster bombs) and food packets (that looked a lot like the unexploded mines, oops) all over Afghanistan, good Americans were reminded that their proper role was to cheer. That is, “support the troops.”

Whatever disagreement you have with a US military action, you must shut up and “support our troops” once the action begins. This is a recipe for unchecked imperialist adventuring. This is a recipe for killing the conscience of the citizen. This is the paradox of the “good German”. This is self-censoring in the face of cognitive dissonance that can only be allayed by integrating the values of the empire - loving Big Brother. Many people who are ambivalent about the present war are using the mantra “support our troops” as the lever to their troubled consciences.

I shall continue to remind my fellow workers that we are the troops that that secure and defend our liberties. Soldiers overseas have rarely, if ever, been the troops who have gained or guaranteed our rights. As is to be expected in a constitutional republic, the troops who have defended me have been in the courtrooms and on the picket lines.

I would address your other concerns, but already I feel you and I are light years apart.

be a leader and stop following "parties"