Forum: Antiwar movement preceded war

The Washington Times ^ | 3 July, 2005 | KIERAN MICHAEL LALOR

[No Longer Free State]

The feigned outrage over Karl Rove's criticism of the liberal response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on this country forced me to recall what liberals I encountered were saying in the days immediately after the savage attacks.

I was then in my first few weeks at Pace Law School with a front-row seat to the left's post-September 11 reaction. September 11 challenged us as individuals, as law students, and as Americans. America must respond forcefully, I thought, and that response will be definitive as it reverberates throughout the world for decades to come.

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Yet my professor, the law school's former dean, entered the classroom and framed the debate with this question: "The United States was attacked by terrorists on Tuesday. Can you think of a time when the United States acted as terrorists?" I was utterly speechless, as were many of my classmates.

Answering his own question, he mentioned the "My Lai massacre" in Vietnam, slavery and the treatment of American Indians as examples of American terrorism. Twenty-five miles from Ground Zero, where rescuers struggled in hopes of finding survivors still alive, this law professor chose to focus on the blemishes in our history as an introduction to our first post-September 11 class. I have to give him credit for being on the cutting edge of liberalism because at this point the now notorious International Freedom Center slated to occupy Ground Zero was just a twinkle in the left's eye.

My professor set the stage for a round of America-bashing and a student from Ethiopia, as if on cue, unleashed a blistering condemnation of the United States for not doing more about the bloodshed in Rwanda in the early 1990s.

[armymarinemom]

I used participate in a lot forums for graphic arts. I remember some groups whining from the get go over our Nation going to war. One idiot woman posted the worse poem I think I had ever read titled "War is Sour". You could almost smell the hashish through the verbiage. Offered her cheese to go with her whine due to the fact that she didn't even have a loved one serving. One of the members of the forum had lost a brother in the WTC, I can only image how she felt reading that drivel.

[Publius6961]

eternalvigilance.org

I will have to give this guy's site a visit.
I wonder if he ever got his Law degree?

[Yardstick]

It's interesting how liberals want us to believe that after 9/11 they were hot for vengeance just like the rest of America, and that they've only become refuseniks since the invasion of Iraq. The truth is that liberals were blaming America from the very first moments after 9/11, just like the article says. The writer nails it when he says the anti-war movement began at the moment of 9/11.

Liberals criticize the Iraq war with the claim that it's taking resources or emphasis away from the hunt for Osama. But that argument is dishonest because back at the time of Tora Bora, when we thought we might have him cornered in the mountains there, liberals weren't gung-ho for catching Osama. Instead, they were reviving defeatist Vietnam-era verbage like "quagmire" to tell us what a mistake our effort in Afghanistan was. They've only recently become interested in "getting Osama" because it provides them with a way to bash the administration.

What a bunch of weasels.