United Who Stands?

What unity? Standing for what?

They popped up after 9/11, and, like most of the other ribbon magnets, seem to imply support for what's being done by the election-thief-in-chief.

I'm not standing with anyone I've seen proclaiming this fiction. NASCAR, Jesus, Iraq, firearms, Republicans, choice, Homeland Security, choose your issue--we probably disagree.

Insurgency or Resistance

Insurgency: An organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.

Resistance: An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.

I think it's the latter.

Operation Yellow Elephant

In case you haven't already discovered it:

"The objective of OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It's only right that they also experience it."

We have chicken hawks running the country, and their offspring (literal and ideological) avoiding the oil and defense industry enrichment program currently being played out in the Middle East (just like their leaders avoided going to Vietnam).

Support Out Troops

The best typo I've seen in a while came from the Operation Yellow Elephant site...

"I hope that there are more folks out there showing up the Yellow Elephants. Yesterday, while travelling through an airport, there was a fat college boy with a "Support Out Troops" T-shirt on, and on the back was a picture of a squad in Iraq holding up a Texas A&M sign. Amazingly he was not in the picture...I guess he couldn't get away from his XBox fast enough to make it to the recruiter before they closed the office for the week."

Does this imply that Texas A&M has sent an all-gay unit to fight this Bush's war? There are all sorts of gay folk out there, so it does stand to reason...

In any case, maybe there is a place for that line of merchandise. Somebody's already selling Cafe Press "Support Out Troops" yellow ribbon stuff. Their take is "if you want our troops home." Mine goes back to the intention that got bastardised with "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

Click on the ribbon and you can get it on stuff, too!