Vietnam/Iraq

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2007)

I just saw the movie and I couldn't help noticing the connection to the war in Iraq. People keep telling me that the war in Iraq is a whole different issue, because this time, Americans were attacked on their native soil. But let me say that the same thing that happened to Ron Kovic is happening right now to other soldiers stationed in Iraq. And although many of them say that they believe in what they're doing, I still think that they finally will draw the same conclusion that Ron Kovic did. That they have been told lies about WMD and the good versus evil and that the war can't be won. If all the soldiers in Iraq or anywhere took what they're doing at face value, than they'd finally have to admit: I shot at people because the corrupt government coaxed me into a war that's not going to do me any good but that is going to help these people wearing a tie and a suit getting richer and richer. I have to blame myself because I took the rifle and shot at people with it. The government may have talked me into it but I have to take full responsibility for letting myself being talked into this war. If I had known, if I had just known that nothing good will come of a person who chooses a gun over a conversation, a rifle over a flower, then today I wouldn't be this person pent up with anger and hatred. Make love, not war! And protest against the war in Iraq!