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66 ginmar Mar 11th, 2006 at thestranger 2:18 am Um, Tina, sweetie, let me introduce myself. I’m liberal, feminist, and a soldier who did a year in Iraq. I’ve forgotten more thestranger about Al Qaeda than you’ll ever know. thestranger Why don’t you got your chickenhawk buddies all together and try and muster up the courage to do one day in Baghdad, much less one year in the midst of two uprisings? See you in Fallujah, then. 67 FoolishOwl Mar 11th, 2006 at 3:00 am It’s a reaction to the inexcusable treatment of returning soldiers from Vietnam, who were largely poor and working-class young draftees being spit on by college students. An editor once told me that out of curiousity, he’d done some research on LEXIS/NEXIS, and found that there was only one reported incident of soldiers returning from Vietnam being spat upon, and the spitters were right wingers who were angry that the soldiers weren’t fighting hard enough. The idea that antiwar protesters would spit on returning soldiers never made any sense to me, for two reasons: first, bringing the soldiers home was a major goal of the antiwar movement; and second, returning veterans were the vanguard of the antiwar
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