I finally caught a glimpse of the U2/Green Day video "The Saints Are Coming". The basic concept is that when Katrina hit that the US troops in Iraq were immediately deployed to help Katrina. On the surface that sounds nice but could you imagine what would happen in Iraq if that redeployment occurred? Never mind how long a redeployment would actually take. These simplistic and silly ideas actually being made into a music video show how out of touch some folks can be. Of course, now some folks will be asking why we didn't redeploy our troops from Iraq to help with Katrina. This is one of those veiled attempts to try and be for the troops because we should be using them for humanitarian missions instead of their current mission.
I'd expect this simple mindedness from Green Day but I thought U2 was smarter than this.
God bless our military and may they complete their mission successfully.
Posted by Tim at November 23, 2006 08:36 AMi was waiting for you to blog on this. it's such a dumb video, i couldn't bring myself to waste words on it.
although the harrier jet dropping sandbags was amusing. :) happy thanksgiving tim!
yeah, you're right. Why should our military be expected to help an AMERICAN city? No, I'd rather have good American boys and girls dying in a country six thousand miles away. Over a hundred thousand American troops are stationed in Iraq because the Iraqi people are unwilling to fight for their own freedom. Get our troops out of there.
Bush should be hanged for this atrocity.
A great video...
Posted by: joe at December 3, 2006 08:10 PM
