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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (579028)	5/28/2004 12:17:29 AM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"certainly is an example of action" If action is what you like to see, then you can do no better than Bush. However, action without understanding is a mark of inexperience. In this case, Bush fails to understand that the Iraqi's, like other grownups, recognize that torture and fear do not exist within a building, but because of what is in men's hearts. Destroying the building as a "fitting symbol of a new Iraq" betrays the significance of what happened there. It demonstrates a wish to remove from plain view what can not and should not be removed from our field of vision. It seeks to remedy a wound by hiding the blood. The prison should remain. It already symbolizes a great deal, and there is no need to fabricate another symbol on top of it. In its own horrible way, the prison unites the two countries by demonstrating the preciousness of our shared humanity and how easily it can be lost.