Notice: when you lose country music...you're a goner

[valarltd]

It's not just fringe guys like Steve Earle and James McMurtrie speaking out anymore. It's not the easily-ignored, heavily vilified Dixie Chicks.

It's Merle Haggard, Mr. Jingoist Okie from Muskogee himself singing about Rebuild America First
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOO3pF2ydCM
embedded under cut

And it's not Merle singing it, but he wrote it, and you can find him doing it at launch.com
"That's the News." The video is hooped, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegvP3ypuy4

Darryl Worely has apparently recanted his previous position of Iraq=9/11 from "Have you forgotten?" and moved to "I just came back from a war."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwpO8Q1u4Ss

And of course, Kris Kristofferson's "In the News"
http://www.kriskristofferson.com/news/
(not embeddable)

"Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees
The billion dollar bombing of a nation on it's knees
Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason
Everyone says God is on his side."

Comments

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Darryl Worely's song isn't a recant. It's real life. To quote Sherman "War is hell". I happen to like and agree with Worely. I find it interesting that NONE of the country stations would play "Have You Forgotten?" until Sean Hannity played it on his radio show and then it shot to the top of the charts for WEEKS.

Yes, I'm an evil person. I'm pro-War, pro-Troops, pro-Bush, and pro-American. Bad me.

[sailorcelestial.livejournal.com]

That doesn't make you an evil person. If you're a friend of Angel's, then you probably have your intelligent reasons for what you support.

I just resent the implication that being anti-war and anti-Bush makes one anti-American. Just because I don't think we should be in Iraq and because I didn't vote for Bush either time and don't like what he's doing, that doesn't make me anti-American, pro-Nazi, pro-terrorist are anything like that. It just means I have a different opinion than you do.

I AM anti-sheep, though.

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

I wasn't implying that. I was just giving a list of what I am. Being one or the other doesn't make you a third. I am just all three separately and together. If that makes sense.

Heck, my boyfriend, whom I love dearly and is a wonderful person, yeah, I'm bias. ;-) He's Anti-War, Anti-Bush, but Pro-American. We get heated with each other because we are the people who's opinions matter the most to each other and don't discuss it often, because...mostly he gets upset and I love him and don't want to hurt him. We're both very opinionated.

I didn't mean to make my entry so knee jerk. I'm just a bit prickly at the moment. I've been going through a lot of crap with people from the RP group I had been a member of for about 9 years. I ended up resigning with about 5 other people because they can't deal with a person having a brain and/or using it. Just found it interesting they found someone who only RPs once or twice a month when they RP twice a week such a danger to break the club bylaws to suspend them. *sigh*

Didn't intend to imply anything.

[sailorcelestial.livejournal.com]

Group RP politics. Ouch. Totally understandable there.

It's all right, my response was a bit knee-jerk itself. I've just gotten so much flack from and seen so many people who DO think I'm a Nazi or something because of my anti-war stance. So my apologies as well.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think you and Mika would get on famously.

And both of you go back and reread that verse of the Kristofferson song I posted. *puts on stern teacher face and then giggles*

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Ah well, at least you're educable.
and 2 out of 4 isn't bad.

I was for the war in Afghanistan.
But attacking Iraq was the equivalent of FDR declaring war on India after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

And I only voted for Bush once. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.