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To: James Calladine who wrote (104298)	4/11/2007 9:15:04 AM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

"But there is something really BOGUS about all the uproar about Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and now Imus." Imo there is a Lord Of The Flies aspect to it and Imus gets to be this month's Piggy. It makes me uncomfortable when a large group of people target an individual with its wrath. That sort of stuff gets people burned at the stake for being witches. The fact that there has been no similar outrage over Maury Povich's "Who Is My Baby's Daddy" segments, where he uses young pregnant black women as objects of ridicule, makes me suspicious that the Imus bruhaha is a more or less random instance of mob behavior.

To: James Calladine who wrote (104298)	4/11/2007 2:20:31 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

I agree totally......we have destroyed the lives of thousands of people but most of us here see the egregious nature of the war. What makes me sick is that millions of Americans call them Christian yet stand behind Bush and his massacre. It's not the Iraqi War.........it's the Iraqi Massacre. Try to imagine what your life would be like if you lived in Baghdad. You couldn't even send your children to school and they wouldn't be allowed out to play. You would be risking your life to go to any shopping area to buy food for your family. Power and water for about 6 hours a day??????????????????

To: James Calladine who wrote (104298)	4/11/2007 4:49:05 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362360

While we can rightly blame Bush & Co. for this needless war and its tragic consequences, some blame must certainly fall at the feet of Islamic radicals and their culture of death. Setting off car bombs in civilian marketplaces, torture using electric drills and shooting people at checkpoints because they are of a different brach of Islam... Bush & Co. expected to be out of Iraq years ago. Yes, he deserves blame for opening this can of worms, but can he be fully to blame for every death, every act of sectarian violence? America... allows a President to continue a savage war resulting in the deaths of numbers of its young men and women DAILY, AND CUMULATIVELY THE DEATH OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS, and