--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:18:22 -0700 (PDT), Gautam > Mukunda wrote > > > Yes. Is that so hard to understand? If the > American > > Nazi Party had organized an antiwar event (which > they > > did, I think) > > Reduction to the extreme again! The parallel would > actually be if the > American Nazi Party was associated with an > organization that was trying to > coordinate activies of a bunch of loosely organized > coalitions, one of which > sponsored an event that I went to.
<sigh> Not really, no. A short history of ANSWER, put together by a blogger and veteran of the Iraq War: http://www.lt-smash.us/archives/002981.html Some highlights: The man who started it all was Ramsey Clark. Clark served as the US Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson, but has more recently made a name for himself by representing such upstanding world citizens as Liberia's Charles Taylor, Serbia's Radovan Karadzic, and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. ... Under the leadership of Ramsey Clark, the IAC was the only major "anti-war" group that refused to condemn Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Indeed, Clark actually flew to Baghdad and met with Saddam Hussein in November 1990, returning home with a handful of Saddam's "guests" (diplomats' families held hostage) as a token of the Iraqi dictator's goodwill. ... The IAC would go on to become leading apologists for Serbian war criminals in Bosnia and Kosovo, labeling reports of rape camps and ethnic cleansing "fabricated atrocities" (never mind those embarassing mass graves). When NATO unleashed a bombing campaign in response to the Serbian ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo, Clark flew to Belgrade to express his support for Milosevic. Not a good bunch of people. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l