When did all the dissenters vanish?

http://www.amarillo.com/stories/053004/opi_kanelis.shtml ^ | 5/30/04 | JOHN KANELIS

[lonevoice]

How else does one explain the view of so many Americans that to question our policy in Iraq is unpatriotic? our countrymen deserve to be tortured, beheaded, burned and dragged through the streets behind cars for the "warcrime" of putting panties on terrorists' heads? How else does one justify the stated opinions that protesting government policy gives "aid and comfort" to our enemies of senior Democratic leadership that US troops in Iraq are no different or better than Hussein's torture chambers and hundreds of thousands of people executed and buried in mass graves?

[okie01]

They didn't editorialize as Soviet apologists.

Psssssssssssst!

Many did exactly that.

And, for the most part, they're the same ones who are "dissenting" now...

[Darlin']

"When did all the dissenters vanish?"

They did ? Oh, dear, Pelosi, Kennedy, Biden, Molly Ivins, McCain, Sean Penn, McAuliffe, Helen Thomas, Chuckie Schummer, Terry Moran, Michael Moore, David Gregory, Martin Sheen, Kerry, AP, Reuters, Rather, Jennings, Koppel, Matthews, Susan Sarandon, Katie Al-Couric, Soros, Gore, Franken, Garafolo (sp) and her hideousness the Beast are gonna be surprised to hear this.

[Texasforever]

They aare alive and well here. I wish I could meet them face to face

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1693593

[ladyinred]

Is this something from the Onion? Is this guy stupid, or just a liar, or both? I have NEVER seen so many dissenters in my life, and I lived through Viet Nam. This is more deceit from the worst media in the history of the US.

[Darlin']

Oooooh, no, not gonna look. I can't bear to look at hateful, ugly things this late at night. LOL

[The Red Zone]

How else does one explain the view of so many Americans that to question our policy in Iraq is unpatriotic?

The issue isn't "questioning" it's "lying and distorting." Without the lies and distortions to prop them up, the so-called "questions" would pretty much fall flat on their faces.

[Lancey Howard]

When did protest become unpatriotic?

Oh, about the same time that protesting the out-of-control growth of taxes and big government became selfish, and it meant that you wanted to feed dog food to old people before throwing them out into the street, let "deteriorating" schools crash down on the heads of the children, and kill millions by polluting the air and water with toxic chemicals. That's when.

Is the Amarillo Globe-News like a second chance for Aggie nerds who couldn't get published with their high school newspapers? Where do liberal handwringers like John Kanelis come from?

[SandRat]

Why rant or flame, you just said what we all feel.

[dfwgator]

I'm ashamed that John Kanelis is from Texas.

[Condor51]

Ditto.

Crack Pipes & Keyboards DON'T mix.

[Condor51]

They didn't editorialize as Soviet apologists

Well actually they did.
See NY Times Archives 1917 to Yesterday.

[okie01]

Would you not lay odds that Kanelis was responsible for more than a few Soviet apologia during the Cold War?

Anti-Americanism: it's all the international left has left...

[YaYa123]

Pithy must be the key! Author John Kanelis read my email and responded with a request for address and phone number so he can consider using it as a published comment.

[dirtboy]

I cannot recall when the United States of America ceased being a land of dissenters; of arguers, of contrary thinking

Oh, puh-leeze. We have anti-Bush commentary everywhere, but dissent has vanished? Talk about starting a commentary with an absurd claim.

How else does one explain the view of so many Americans that to question our policy in Iraq is unpatriotic? How else does one justify the stated opinions that protesting government policy gives "aid and comfort" to our enemies?

It's one thing to question government policy - we all should do that every day. It's another to pursue an anti-American agenda and to give aid to those who are trying to kill our soldiers.

[walford]

Dissent is questioning policies. This is not what we're dealing with here.

• Characterizing the president as a modern-day Hitler,
• Ignoring the vastly improved situation for most Iraqis, 
• Failing to criticize using women and children as human shields,
• Failing to criticize using mosques, hospitals and schools as ammo dumps/firing positions,
• Giving the terrorists the idea that the American people are increasingly demoralized and that if they kill enough of us [and do so in a savage enough manner] we will quit,
• Advocating a precipitous withdrawal that will result in a bloody civil war followed by another dictatorship

-- is beyond unpatriotic.

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