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I read with interest the responses around Australian Beccy Cole's last single. It is blatantly pro military and pro Afghanistan war. A Canadian country singer Julian Austin released a single called Red & White that probably few outside of Afghanistan have heard. Why is it that a couple of country singers can express their support of the what the military is doing when pop stars cannot seem to grasp that insulting the President is also insulting every person that voted for him, which incidentally is more then those that voted against him. A few that decided the best way to win hearts and minds through name calling are Green Day with their single American Idiot, and Natalie Maines exclaiming:

Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas

The backlash was inevitable as people don't like being called stupid, particularly in large groups. The groups that disagreed with the anti-war groups used the insults as a wedge to disenfranchise those that disagree with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until the high profile groups understand that derogatory comments and insults are going to be used by their opponents to derail the discussion.

All that being said, television and the internet has changed the way war is broadcast live now and everything is reduced to a sound bite. People never saw the horrors of anything prior to the Vietnam War, but atrocities happen in every war so what makes this one different?

I finish with two final comments Toby Keith turned his career into a pro military propaganda machine and John Ford on 9-11, just so everyone remembers why the US, and by extension, Canada is there.

I wrote this over two days and forgot what I was writing about...