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To: moufassa7 who wrote (12322)	3/28/2003 11:09:05 AM
From: tsigprofit	Respond to of 13660

Starting a war by invading a country without international backing will not win us more friends. It is wrong - plain and simple.

To: moufassa7 who wrote (12322)	3/28/2003 11:11:16 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13660

Patriotic protests: It is most certainly patriotic to protest an illegal war of aggression, not backed by the UN, or most of the world. This makes the point: From Daniel Ellsberg, protesting in front of the White House, live via cell phone, Thursday night, March 20th: "We are out here tonight, supporting our troops, by telling the President to bring them home--we're telling him not to send our troops to die from chemical weapons in the desert, in this reckless and unnecessary war, which will decrease the security of American citizens enormously. A heavy rain is coming down now, and the police are surrounding us, telling us that they will arrest us, that we don't have a permit to be here, just as the U.S. doesn't have a permit from the UN to bomb Iraq. This war is blatantly aggressive and illegal, from the perspective of the UN charter, to which we are a signatory. Thus it is illegal from the perspective of the Constitution of the United States, which holds all treaties we sign to be the supreme law of the land. "Aggressive war is not patriotic. It flies in the face of everything our Constitution stands for. I cannot think of a better place for patriotic Americans like us to be, than out here in front of the White House, putting our bodies in the way of this war, nonviolently. I expect one way or another to be arrested tonight, which seems right on this particular night. It's a good night for a patriotic American who opposes this war to be in jail. [Note: Ellsberg was not arrested Thursday night, as he expected to be, but he was arrested, along with many others, protesting in the same place on Friday, and spent Friday night in jail.]