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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (107574)	8/21/2005 11:38:43 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Several comments on this post: 1) The representatives of the right here continually try to make the mess in Iraq invisible by focusing on things that are irrelevant, like the personalities of the anti-war protesters, or by challenging the patriotism of the anti-war people at Feelies. I would not have chosen Cindy Sheehan to lead the protest--she is definitely a flawed individual like the rest of us. But she is not the issue--the war in Iraq and all the horrible decisions that were made by an incompetent administration are the issue. 2) I tried a web search and could not find Michael Moore's original comments about the Minutemen and the Founding Fathers that Christopher Hitchens is quoting. Could someone please provide those for me? I would like to read them before I comment. 3) Poor Christopher Hitchens seems to be falling deeper into some alcoholism-related dementia. He seems less and less lucid. 4) It is absolutely correct that the terrorists hate us not because they hate freedom, but because they don't like our Middle East policy. That policy is based on supporting Israel. So in a way our soldiers in Iraq are definitely dying to support our Israel policy. Sheehan is correct when she asserts this. 5) Sheehan would not be the first person to assert that Bush is a terrorist. The citizens of Iraq, many of whom have been killed, wounded, or are suffering with sick and dying children and no electricity for three years, certainly consider him a terrorist. He made up bogus reasons to go to war against them, and since he is backed by U.S. military might, somehow we are supposed to believe the war is respectable and not terror? It certainly is terror if you are on the other end of his invasion/bombs.