Hi Doug -- this applies to some of the posters on this thread:
Antiwar mongering
usnews.com
Many "peace" marchers, of course, are not anti-American, just antiwar. That's the point of all the news articles saying the movement has "broadened," i.e., pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. However, we should all pay some heed to whom we hang out with. Tom Bevan, a blogger at RealClearPolitics, put it nicely: "It matters a great deal who is organizing the protests. I don't absolve the `true' antiwar protesters for taking part in a march organized by American-hating groups any more than I'd absolve someone who marched in a legitimate protest of immigration laws if it was sponsored by the KKK."
And:
the denunciation of Bush as Hitler is a favorite of people who shout "McCarthyism!" when anyone points out, accurately, that the antiwar movement has been organized by far-left activists who defend Mao, Castro, Milosevic, the mullahs of Iran, and the Stalinists of North Korea. The reason Bush is compared to Hitler so often is simple: All the other recent monsters are heroes to major antiwar organizers.
And when the article says anti-American, it means waaaay more than just being Anti-Bush administration. And that should be pretty clear here just by some of the web sites that some of these guys cut and paste from.
......... and yessssss, I know, US News isn't exacly the most un-biased publication in American, it ranks right up there with "Parade" magazine, lol !
Take care,
Chris |
