Beautiful =]

notice how they did not ask the corporate recruiters to leave, yet the hippie kids claim they are anticapitalist. I guess they don't want to kill their chances at a nice job once they leave ucsc and
their anti-establishment causes behind.

I go to the University of Nevada Reno and our Queer Student Union is co-sponsoring a career fair protest. I am amazed at how many people participated in your protest! I wish I went to that school! Our campus is sickeningly conservative so I don't think a kiss-in would go over very well/safely, but I think you guys did an AWESOME job. Very inspiring...thank you.

Students Against the War offend me - can I have them kicked off campus?

They seem to be discriminating against those that don't think like them... ;)

It's good that you can protest. People in Iraq and Afghanistan were unable to protest anything until recently. Though it's not covered in the news, the Marshes in Iraq are making a comeback. People have water and power that did not have those comforts during Sadaam's regime. Afghanistan has women on the council. A lot of good, but probably boring and not that newsworthy stuff happens every HOUR. We -- me, my friends and fellows -- helped with that. Military, Iraqi, and Afghan lives were lost for freedom from discrimination. We -- me, and the Soldiers I speak to daily -- are not there for oil or money. I am not a recruiter. I want the war to end too, but not before Iraq is free and Afghanistan is safe from people who don't believe in free speech or education for women. Taliban, Al Queda have demonstrated in the past they will enforce this type of life on people through violence. I will go back again and again until the mission is complete. If you don't want to join me, beautiful. I don't want you here if you don't want to be here. But I do not think it is cool that you would try to stop the recruiters. You might not want to join. But someone else might want to hear what the recruiters have to say. No doubt, if you NEVER went to war, military life is not easy. Early mornings filled with long runs and hard workouts are just the BEGINING of the average day. I don't get the Queer Kiss-in thing, but trust me that would have resulted in death in Afghanistan or Iraq before we got there. How about this: you kiss on, I'll Soldier on, but let the recruiters recruit on. It's choices. It's free speech. It's American. It's what I am fighting about and what you are kissing about.

Check your facts on Afghanistan and Iraq post-invasion. Here's a good start:

"The editor of a women's rights magazine in Afghanistan has been arrested after publishing articles deemed blasphemous."
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4310024.stm

You might also want to educate yourself on women's rights in our "friends" Saudi Arabia and Israel, and compare those to Iraq prior to invasion.

If you think we are fighting in the middle east to bring "freedom and democracy" to the people, look at what type of government was installed back into Kuwait after ousting Saddam the first time. It you think we're there to fight terrorists, google "Allawi school bus cinema mosque" and read up on our good friend Iyad Allawi.

I think you should check yours. When the Taliban ran things, the Afghan lady -- the subject of your story would have been -- beheaded -- if the Taliban were feeling generous -- not arrested. I know that for a fact. I heard it first hand from Afghan women I spoke to when I was there. I know why I was there. I don't think it. Women's rights will continue to be a struggle. I never said it was perfect. But it is better than when I first got there. It will get better with time. I guess I neglected to mention that I am a female. I am there to fight terrorists -- mainly the Salifist terrorist which is the fastest growing type. Salifists want a Caliphate. Goodle Khalifa and follow the stories there. (Also books are good, check out Inside the Al Queda, Jihad vs. McWorld and every book Karen Armstrong has ever written so that you get a clear picture of the difference between a true Moselem and what is meant by an Islamist.) Al Queda are in the Salifist group. The Al Queda backed the Taliban. The Taliban swooped into a town, took girls as young as 10 in "temporary marriages" and brutalized them. Oh by the way, since women could not be doctors or hold any job of any type and because Women could not be seen by a male doctor, the girls who could not be smuggled to see the Women doctors who ran practices in secret out of their homes, died horribly and painfully from their brutalizations. Stories like this were told to me by Afghan women in Afghanistan. One woman told me her daughter's story to explain why she wished her then 13-year-old daughter had died. Also, since you are into Women's issues, google "honor killing." Al Queda are also big into that. There is nothing more compelling than hearing and seeing things first hand from those people who are intimately impacted. I didn't read it. I didn't google it. It wasn't some press conference content. There were no cameras around. Trust me, I am clear on why I was there and why I am going back. I do not invalidate your opinion. Your opinion is formed by what you see and hear and experience. My opinion is formed by those same forces. All I am saying is that in the interests of all things American let the recruiters recruit. I am sure there is room for all points of view particulary on a college campus.