Veterans For Peace

| January 29, 2007

I don’t know about the rest of you, but just the name of this “Veterans For Peace” organization cheeses me off. It implies that the rest of us, who aren’t members, are veterans for war. Honestly, I don’t know any veterans or active duty soldiers who are “for war’, per se.

We serve or served to preserve peace by being ready. There are more periods in our history when the defenders of peace and liberty trained for war than actually fought in wars – a tribute to their efforts actually.

This Veterans For Peace was formed in 1985 according to it’s website. One question. Why? What was going on in 1985 that would have spawned such a group? And where were they during the Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and earlier Iraq dust-ups? According to their website,  their history jumps straight from their founding in 1985 to their opposition of the Iraq War in 2003. What the Hell were doing in the interim?

I’ve been to several of the anti-war marches since 9/11 and all I’ve seen of them is a table with membership brochures usually manned by a Code Pink member. The only picture I saw of them this weekend was this close in shot of three guys in shorthair cuts and uniforms from AP;

I didn’t see them at the march, so they must’ve gotten there after I lost my stomach to listen to any more tripe. And as near as I can tell, there only three guys in the organization because those are the first members I’ve ever seen – aside from a table with brochures.

I’d love to ask one of them what gives them the right to call the rest of us Veterans For War.

In fact, I wrote this blog entry in hopes that while googling or “Technorati-ing” their organization name (when I do my logs at night, I always come across some self-centered journalist or activist who uses search engines to see who is saying what about them. And they always try to register on this site with a fake email address and get rejected), they’ll come across this post and tell me why I’m a Veteran For War. 

And what does “Veterans For Peace” mean? Peace at any cost?

Category: Antiwar crowd

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