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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (16471)	11/3/2002 1:46:45 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

<<< ... George McGovern, 80, who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his 35 B-24 combat missions against Nazi Germany, takes particular umbrage with those who now talk of Saddam Hussein as a modern-day Hitler. "Hitler, in possession of the world's then-greatest military force, had the power to destroy Western civilization," McGovern observed, while Hussein, his military eviscerated in the Gulf War and afterward, can easily be contained. McGovern was speaking on a cruise ship in Boston Harbor to a group of Nation magazine subscribers. Many men in the audience were veterans of what has come to be viewed as the good war, and like McGovern they expressed contempt for the so-called chicken hawks who dominate the Bush war camp: men eager to send others into combat, which they themselves have not experienced. "I'm sick and tired of those old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in," McGovern said in an interview. "You know that [Vice President] Dick Cheney, [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld and [Deputy Defense Secretary] Paul Wolfowitz have not been in a war and will not fight in this one they are planning." McGovern says the administration is committed to a jingoistic unilateralism that will only encourage more hostility and attacks on the United States. President Bush "claims that people around the world hate us for our freedom, but it is our freedom they love and our arrogance that they hate," McGovern said. He cited a recent statement by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice that the administration's main accomplishment was "the hardening of America." The biggest problem he has with Bush's White House is a pattern of lying that McGovern believes rivals that of Nixon's. For example, "Bush has said repeatedly that Saddam Hussein threw the international arms inspectors out of Iraq, but that's not true. We withdrew our inspectors." ... >>> commondreams.org

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (16471)	11/3/2002 12:42:29 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

Falwell doesn't represent all Christians any more than Osama bin Laden represents all Muslims. I'll tell you one thing, though: Falwell has NEVER advocated the kind of stuff that OBL espouses and the Muslim faith in general has failed to condemn. You might say Falwell is a disgrace to Christians, but that doesn't say much for the rest of your beliefs. Unless you don't believe in freedom in religion and freedom of speech, you must grant Falwell the right to say anything he wants without badmouthing him.