Pearl Jam Bash Bush, Honor Veteran at Lollapalooza

You guys are all retards. A soldiers job is to do what the president and his leaders/commanders tell him to do. When you sign the papers to join the armed forces you KNOW that for a fact and you AGREE whether you disagree or agree with why you're doing what you're told to do. Thus why they tell you that you're giving up your rights when you join the military.. As far as this whole bush war/conspiracy bs.. We've heard it since he's been president.. I don't support bush but as a leader he did what sooner or later one of our presidents would've had to do and that's make a move on the worlds most used resources (oil) and try to put our forces in power in the mid-east so that we'd have an actual "power" on that side of the world and let's face it.. the U.K isn't a super power by any means.. they could be taken out in a few hours if Russia, China and other countries decided to hit it. As far as the war in the mid east, before the war actually started majority of America was FOR the war, it wasn't until after it started that polls quickly changed.. Why you ask? Because more and more people's friends/family started being sent away or at risk to be sent to Iraq and opposed the idea.

As the young man that was sitting with Eddie and Ben while they were onstage singing a song written for my upcoming anti-war documentary I can safely say that an anti-war opinion coming from someone who has not served in the military sounds a hell of a lot better than a pro-war viewpoint coming from a non military member. Those thoughts come with little or no true regard for what too many brave men and women have given so much for as they continue to be sent over to the wrong country and serve as pawns in an obstinate childs assault on both reasonable thinking and and innocent people.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

Teddy Roosevelt

to S.A.

Please enlighten us oh wise sage. Quiet our restless souls and tell us why! Why do we fight?

My son decided to become a Marine he is 20 years old and leaving next week. He Loves his country,I wonder how those in Pearl Jam feel when they close their eyes at night and weren't brave enough to stand up for their country? So as the saying goes "SHUT UP OR PUT UP!!!!!!!!!"

Lockandload: where in Iraq are you writing from?

Thank God, that we have men and women willing to stand up and defend this country, so that idiots like this can enjoy the freedom to make asses of themselves.

Was there a terrorist attack at the concert? I wonder if these morons thought to thank those of us that serve, for that fact of life? Raking in $, while doing nothing but shooting their mouths off is what most celebrities do best.

I used to love pearl jam, but everytime I hear them and their close counterparts like Sean Penn talk down to this country and cheer on those who are against us (i.e. Venezuelas own totalitarian dictator Hugo Chavez) its disheartening. Im not all for the war and I think that mistakes were made, but I have no problem sticking up for my country and Bush as well, if thats what it takes to show our enemies that THEY WONT WIN.
Whatever happened to music being about music. You used to be able to put on your headphones and escape "reality", nowadays it just brings in deeper. Give us music, not poetic politics!!!

President Bush wasn't the only one who voted "yes" on the Iraq war...don't forget that.

A "rock star" is entitled to voice his opinion just as anyone else is who lives in this great, free country we live in. I support our brave men and women in the military but do not support the Iraq war. It was nothing but lies and disinformation by the Bush administration that got us involved in the first place. Weapons of Mass Destruction? Any luck in finding those? George W. had to clean up what his daddy couldn't do. And yet the real monster, Bin Laden, who Bush said would, "pay for knocking down these towers," is still out there a free man and planning his next attack. That's the man we should be hunting down. Not letting our troops die in a country that not only does not want us there but have been killing each other for 3,000 years anyway. And just because I don't like Bush or support him does NOT meanI'm bad mouthing my country. That's a crock. I would support anything that had to do with eliminating Bin Laden. Which Bush (who has the lowest approval rating of any President in history) said he would do. More falsehoods from the current administration...which isn't really surprising since it was falsehoods that got us involved in Iraq to begin with.