Clever form of protest, too bad it doesn't bother to honor the soldiers' choice.

I'd wager that most of the soldiers he's protesting for, died fighting for something this protestor doesn't even want to admit - freedom. Therefore, the protestor is giving a false voice to many of those that have died.

Ironically our soldiers are working hard to give an Iraqi citizen the same freedom to protest in their own country, while preserving our own.

I'd wager that most of the soldiers he's protesting for, died fighting for something this protestor doesn't even want to admit - freedom.

Or, y'know, for college tuition. As an associate professor, he's bound up in that cycle, well beyond platitudinous invocations of 'freedom'.

The other option is that your perspective is only that, your perspective.Go ask some dead soldiers if they want to be dead, or with their loved ones.

People want to live.
Men dieing for no cause is not heroic; and men sending men to die in a baseless war is criminal.

People die in combat because they do not want to--cannot--desert their buddies when the shit falls...

the 'freedom' part is the propaganda frame that gets attached when the inconvenient questions start about why they were somewhere getting killed to begin with...

personally, i object--to put it mildly--that military recruiters are given special access to students' records beginning in upper grade schools: as early as 6th and 7th grades.

i object to the disingenuous tone of the ads which are everywhere, posing as public service announcements, wherein voices of 'regular troops' extol their contribution to peace and freedom...

Peace and freedom are the LAST things the military has any desire to see accomplished. Peace and freedom come, and the military are outta work...

militarism has become the norm for USers...there is hardly a community of any size or substance in the whole country which does not have some "defense" industry component nearby 'contributing to the economy'...

read Chalmers Johnson

ever since the revolution, militarism has always been recognized by small-d democrats to constitute one of the biggest threats to small-r republican democracy in the USofA...

if it is not already too late, and the threat is now slouching like some rude beast out of the desert...

just sayin'

Interesting form of protest, and bonus style points for subverting the military's own propaganda tool. Very inspiring!

I'd be even more impressed if he was doing something to call attention to the non-combatant Iraqi citizens who've died since all this crap began. Of course, he probably wouldn't have time to list all 38,000 of them one by one, although he could start with the names listed here .

There's no debate about what choice these civilians had in the matter. Too bad they seem to get ignored, and the only death toll American politics wants to acknowledge is that of their own soldiers. If this is about making Iraqi lives better, why aren't we showing some remorse when they're lost? (Or avoiding cluster bombs and land mines, for that matter?)

Source: Iraq Body Count

I am the one creating this work. As per the last post regarding civilian casualties - my first idea was, indeed, to post the names of Iraq civilians - unfortunately, to our shame, a complete list does not exist. I may still do similar with the partial list you note - I have long been aware of this short list of 3500+ names of Iraqis. My first inkling of the idea for this online memorial/protest came while looking at the website full of proposals for the 9/11 memorial in NYC - I started thinking about why there is/won't be a memorial to the thousands of Iraqi's dying for our "freedom".

To input the names of our US military dead in the AA site was a choice to give a particular focus to the project.

This reminds me of when we used to play Rainbow Six, gather around in a circle, wobble from side to side singing Kum by Ya :o)

I highly doubt this form of protest is effective in so much as it is annoying. It would be my guess that co-players would kill this user as quickly as possible so as not have to read the "spam" scrolling up their screen.

The right to protest is what prevents revolution in this country, and it stops radical minority thought from forcing itself upon more sane thought. This is why I think protest is wonderful.

Countries need brave men and women to fight for them, and to protect them. Without a strong military, a free society cannot maintain itself.

Americans are able to relax, and ponder because of the economic prowess of their country, and because of the military that defends their ability to do so.

Logging into a tool that the military uses to dismantle their ability to recruit new soldiers is in many ways, self defeating.

Without the military, you cannot protest, and yet you wish to disable their ability to defend your rights.

The war in Iraq is fought because of a dictator in Iraq who has now been disposed, and because of how the current Administration chose to deal with that particular dictator.

If you want to change that fact then attack the political cause of this war, and not the country's inherent ability to defend itself.

You just might want an army 20 years from now when a foreign invader is attempting to impose their will on your ideals.

Attack the politics and not the military, unless you're just a complete and total idiot.