Saturday, March 29, 2003 |
18:54 - Da Slogans
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I saw some real humdingers on the way back through Pleasanton-- more overt than any that I've seen here in the Bay Area, in fact. I'm not sure how that works.
Some of the window/bumper slogans were long and weird enough to make me wish I had a British-spec car with the driver's seat on the right, so I could roll down my window at highway speeds and have words with the driver.
How will killing Iraqi babies with cruise missiles bring peace? Hmm-- didn't we just cover a very similar question in a certain radio interview a short time ago? And in any case, if I had a big thick marker and some paper and some Scotch tape to scribble a reply message to hang in my own back window, and a third arm so I could tape it up without veering off the road, it would say, It won't-- that's why we're trying so hard not to do that! No country has ever gone to such absurd lengths to avoid harming civilians in a war-- and that's why we're vulnerable to terrorist tactics like suicide-bombing and dressing combatants as civilians. If we didn't care about civilian casualties, these things would not concern us! Hmm. Maybe I'd have to shorten it a bit.
And this one really cracked me up: Are We Kinder & Gentler Yet? Hey, buddy, it was being "kinder and gentler" that got us into this mess in the first place. Why do you think Osama thought he could get away with knocking down the WTC without us doing so much as whine about it?
And there were several that said Peace Is Patriotic. To those I wanted to reply that To the Iraqis, "Peace" is Death.
And, of course, a No Blood For Oil. On a Toyota with the second "O" modified into a peace symbol, naturally. I'd guess this is someone who would point with a smirk at the fact that Halliburton is up for a contract to rebuild Iraq after the war-- and probably would accuse me of "stifling dissent" if I mentioned that Halliburton was only one of several candidates being considered, and that as of yesterday (I believe) they're out of the running.
Ugh. I'm of half a mind to make up a banner to hang in my rear window that says, simply, Think Beyond The Slogans. But then, I'd be tempted to write up a dozen more signs, each with more words and a smaller font than the last, and paste them all across my rear window so cars would crash into me trying to read them and I'd never see them coming.
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