> Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > What I would ask also is, has the anti-war > movement no > > sense of decency, using this poor woman as a prop > in > > its attempts to attack the President? How do you > >feel rallying to someone supported by David Duke > > (http://www.davidduke.com/index_print.php?p=350) - > it > > seems to me that people willing to exploit a poor, > > bereaved woman as she lashes out to assuage her > >grief should be comfortable in his company.
<snip> > By this logic, you are on the side of the rednecks > who decided to > "protest" Sheehan by destroying some of the crossces > left near her vigil > point (vandalism is illegal, last time I checked), > and clearly are on > the side of "hunters" who fire off *shotguns* in an > attempt to > intimidate American citizens who have PEACEABLY > ASSEMBLED to protest > something (in many parts of the US it's illegal do > discharge a firearm > within 1/4 mile of a public right-of-way), *and* who > have made it clear > they're not at all happy about their fellow citizens > EXERCISING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. <snip> I'm more-or-less neutral on what CS is doing, although as a citizen she has every right to state her opinions publicly. Both sides are 'exploiting' those who support their point of view; at least that's how I see it when tearful families are interviewed and state that their son/daughter/spouse died in a just cause. I still don't think this war was justifiable, but the real problem now is the stunning incompetence with which this administration has conducted the post-phase-one campaign. There is no Iraqi constitution yet, and the three factions want to pull the troika in quite different directions. Civil war is a distinct possibility, from what I have read, and that will be a big US loss. Of course, if they decide that women have less rights than men, or that Iraqi law should reflect fundamentalist Islam, the US also loses. Not to mention women and anybody other than wahabbi Muslims. And now the potential necessity of negotiating with the Ba'athist (sp?) portion of the insurgents looms -- certainly a loss-of-face for the US, although anything that reduces the carnage for Iraqi citizens should be considered very seriously. Debbi Command Voice Please Maru __________________________________________________ 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
