To: DMaA who wrote (367031 ) 3/6/2003 10:11:16 AM From: Thomas A Watson Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667 A vacant liberal minded lefty loon ignore the facts... OH MY. say is ain't so.... Don't ya just love dem dems...LOL.... Thursday, March 6, 2003 Congresswoman Likens bin Laden to America's Founding Fathers Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray isn't the only Democrat on Capitol Hill who has kind words for mass-murdering terrorist Osama bin Laden: Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, likens him to our Founding Fathers. "If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution," Kaptur told the Toledo Blade. Many religious people who had fled repression in other countries helped America "cast off monarchical Britain" in 1776, she said, such as the patriot militia Green Mountain Boys. "One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown," the 11-term Toledo Democrat claimed. Kaptur, who is to speak Friday at an appeasement workshop for Toledo Catholic leaders titled "Preaching and Teaching Peace in the Face of War," said: Terrorism as 'Acts of Sacred Piety' "I think that one thing that people of faith understand about the world of Islam is that the kind of insurgency we see occurring in many of these countries is an act of hope that life will be better using Islam as the only reed that they have to lean on. "I think that people of faith understand that for many of the terrorists, their actions are acts of sacred piety to the point of losing their lives. And I think that people of faith understand that there is a heavy religious overtone to the opposition." In Iraq, "Even if we take the ground, we do not share the culture, and in the end we have to learn to coexist in a world with religious states that we may not agree with and find ways to cooperate." Blame America First for Feeding Just Some Foreigners, Not All Rather than turning to military action, the United States should put foreigners on the American taxpayers' dole, the congresswoman urged. "I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day," she said. "The reason I think this is such an important moment in history is because the United States cannot become the target of the anguish of the dispossessed in the most undemocratic region of the world." Be sure to tell Rep. Kaptur what you think of her. Call her Toledo office at 800-964-4699. Fax: 419-255-9623. For her Washington office, call 202-255-4146 or fax 202-225-7711. E-mail: REP.KAPTUR@mail.house.gov. To really get her attention, send her an urgent PriorityGram. And ask House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi what she intends to do about Kaptur.newsmax.com