During the Vietnam war, United States construction workers, nicknamed “hard hats”, deservedly or undeservedly, had a reputation of supporting that war.
Well, today, with the Iraq war, even Fox News of super warmonger Rupert Murdoch (see also here and here), has to admit that construction workers’ views on George W. Bush’s war are rather different.
From Think Progress blog in the USA:
Boehner booed by construction workers’ union.Just like with Merle Haggard, people that the media might expect to be pro Iraq war, do not live up to that expectation; certainly not if the discredited old 9/11-Iraq connection lie is wheeled out by Bush supporters like Boehner.Fox News tells the story:
House [Republican] Minority Leader John Boehner was booed on Wednesday at a construction workers’ union legislative forum for saying the United States needs to fight the war in Iraq or face terror attacks at home.
“Who doesn’t believe that if we just pull out of Iraq and come home that the terrorists won’t follow us here and we’ll be fighting them on the streets of America?” Boehner, R-Ohio, said to members attending the AFL-CIO’s Building & Construction Trades Department’s legislative forum.
Apparently, most in the crowd don’t believe it.
Boos from the audience grew louder as Boehner continued, “This is a, ladies and gentlemen, this is a serious fight.”
