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Posted on 01/18/2003 6:44:20 AM PST by Timesink
Posted by Kevin Willmann
Saturday, January 18, 2003
In an interview last November published by the Egyptian weekly Al Usbou, Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein told writer Sayyid Nassar, ''No doubt, time is working for us. We have to buy some more time, and the American-British coalition will disintegrate because of internal reasons and because of the pressure of public opinion in the American and British street.''
This Saturday in San Francisco and Washington D.C., Saddam will ''get by with a little help from his friends'' in the anti-war movement. The sights and smells will resemble a crowd at a Grateful Dead concert. However, instead of music, protesters will hear anti-American rhetoric and hysterical claims of eroding civil liberties. Also, a group of women plan to leave the comfort of their Marin County hot tubs to march nude. They have received media attention for using their nude bodies to spell out anti-war slogans on the green hills where American traitor Johnny Walker grew up.
Judging from previous protests, the demonstrators will be given favorable press. The San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, and D.C. area papers will not mention the patriotic men and women who will counter these anti-war protesters. Because of the liberal media's Watergate mentality that all Republicans are bad, they never question the claims and leadership of the anti-war movement.
It will be reported that a group called A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and Eradicate Racism) organized both rallies. Missing is the fact that A.N.S.W.E.R. is part of the International Action Center (IAC), a front group for the Stalinist inspired Workers World Party.
Their leader is Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson. Clark is also on retainer as legal counsel for the State of Iraq. The left-leaning Salon.com called him ''The War Criminal's Best Friend'' in a June 1999 article. Other IAC/WWP causes are support for Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted for the 1981 murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer. Jamal has become a Nome de Celebes for liberal Hollywood elitists like Ed Asner. The WWP also supported the 1989 massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square, calling the victims ''counter-revolutionaries.''
Most of the public does not know of the violent anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric at these events, conflicting with the ''peace and love'' image these protesters are given in the media. In a Washington D.C. rally last April a speaker yelled, ''Globalize the Infatada'' to attendees. Last October, one sign read ''I Love Iraq, Bomb Texas.'' Vietnam veterans who will participate in Saturday's Washington, D.C.
counter-rally with FreeRepublic.com say they have received violent threats from the anti-war crowd.
While editorial writers question President Bush and the necessity of a war with Iraq, they will not question the claims of these leftists that this is a ''war for oil'' and our civil liberties are being taken away. The facts are that only a small percentage of oil actually comes from Iraq. If the war was really ''about oil,'' why didn't we take over the oil fields after the last Gulf War in 1991? Why did the price of oil go down at that time? On the civil liberties question, these leftists cannot claim one civil liberty which has been lost due to the US Patriot Act.
In hypocritical fashion, these people are silent when liberal judges attack the Second Amendment and when Congress limits political free speech under the guise of Campaign Finance Reform. In Berkeley, Calif., home of the Free Speech Movement, speakers like former 60's radical David Horowitz and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are shouted down or prevented from speaking due to riots. Copies of the U.C. Berkeley student newspapers have been confiscated and destroyed by leftist brownshirts when objectionable advertisements or stories appear. Where is the outrage from those who are so concerned about civil liberties?
If the prospect of a war with Iraq is to be questioned, so should the motives and rhetoric of the anti-war movement. In presenting only one side of the argument, the media is playing a dangerous game. Protests and naked women making human anti-war statements do not deter Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, or any other threat to our national security. It only empowers them. Past, as well as recent history prove this point clearly.
After all, Iraq, North Korea and the former Taliban regime are not known for their abundance of civil liberties, only their lack of them.
Bravo, yes, systems less great than ours should be invaded and bombed until they improve. You my friend are a friggin' genius. Truly you have convinced me that America has made a grand stride toward nation building. How could I have been so short sighted not to see how war will catapult mankind forward. Thousand points, yes, bravo.
...why don't they go live there? Honestly, if those systems are so great, wouldn't it be better to live under them, than our own system?
Bravo, yes, systems less great than ours should be invaded and bombed until they improve. You my friend are a friggin' genius. Truly you have convinced me that
America has made a grand stride toward nation building. How could I have been so short sighted not to see how war will catapult mankind forward. Thousand
points, yes, bravo.
5 posted on 01/18/2003 7:25 AM PST by TightSqueeze
Perhaps you can point out where I said any system inferior to our own should be attacked, in the post you responded to? It would be a neat trick since I didn't advance that thought.
Second, I didn't advocate doing anything to Iraq in the response you addressed. Duh.
Third, the folks I mentioned are singing the praises Iraq. If they are singing praises of it, doesn't it stand to reason that nation is better than ours and should make a wonderful place to live? If our system is imperfect, hense deserving of disdain, and Saddam's is not worthy of criticism, it seems to me those folks would seek to live under his rule.
Thousand points? If you had caught even one point from my post it would have been worth a response from you.
Sign the Petition. Citizens Against Celebrity Pundits.
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Two of the rally "organizers" were on C-Span's W. Journal this a.m....the whole last hour, and no one of an opposing viewpoint "on site". The callers get their two minutes (if that) and then the "guests" get the "filibuster pulpit"...this concerns me, and for shame, C-Span!!!
I totally agree! Thanks for the ping, Dutchy.
The BIG difference between now and 1970 is that in 2001, the United States was attacked and 3,000 innocents were murdered.
In 1970, it was a bit different.
There is not an American breathing that should be demonstrating against forcibly removing Saddam Hussein from his WMD throne.
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