Reply #113: "Hell no, we won't go!" "1,2,3,4, We don't want your rich man's war!" [View All]

[No Exit]

"I ain't no fortunate son... I ain't no senator's son..." (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

"And it's 1,2,3, what're we fightin' for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Vietnam,

And it's 5,6,7, open up the Pearly Gates,
Ain't no need to wonder why,
Whoopee! We're all gonna die!" --Country Joe and the Fish

"Ohio"--Crosby Stills & Nash

... and on and on and on it went. It pervaded everything we did. I was a teenager and wasn't even paying attention, but I remember a great deal of it. It was also on TV: commercial in which two Cheney-esque old men in suits come out and have a pathetic fistfight, and the narrator says, "Our next war: this time, the LEADERS are gonna fight it out..."

And on and on and on. Everywhere. All the time.

OPPOSITION TO THE VIETNAM WAR WAS HUGE. Isn't it amazing, with all that visible, virulent, opposition, the Vietnam war went slogging on and on and on... (hey, just like the Iraq war!) and young people kept getting killed and killed and killed... do you or anyone need ANY more proof that to our elected officials we are nothing more than chattel, to be used like beasts of burden, then sold to the knacker's or the glue factory when we're dead?