This is for Ed Assner.
Please copy and forward to any American you care to.
NEVER FORGET.
Posted on 06/14/2002 7:20:55 AM PDT by Jean S
A group of left-wing actors, writers and academics has issued a public condemnation of the Bush administration's war on terrorism, releasing a letter that includes the suggestion that the U.S. may have actually deserved what it got on 9-11.
The signatories to the protest letter include prominent U.S. critics Ed Asner and Ossie Davis, civil rights scion Martin Luther King III, feminist Gloria Steinem, Rabbi Michael Lerner and playwright Eve Ensler.
Ensler, author of the "Vagina Monologues," and Lerner, the one-time publisher of Tukkun Magazine, are both good friends of Democratic Party presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.
In their sole reference to Sept. 11, the anti-war group suggests that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were a consequence of past U.S. military aggression.
"We too mourned the thousands of innocent dead [on 9-11] and shook our heads at the terrible scenes of carnage," the signatories said, "even as we recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City and, a generation ago, Vietnam."
London's Guardian newspaper, which first reported the anti-terror war letter, called its signers "the widest ranging group of opponents of government policy since September 11."
The letter, which the group titled "Not in Out Name," urges "all Americans to resist the war and repression that has been loosed on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral and illegitimate."
The group warns that the war on terrorism's "brutal repercussions have been felt from the Philippines to Palestine. The government now openly prepares to wage all-out war on Iraq - a country which has no connection to the horror of September 11."
"We will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it," the group concludes.
If the looney left squeeled and everyone had their fingers in their ears: Would that disgusting, repulsive ranting really make a sound?
They wish. The anti-American agenda can't fit many facts of the current crisis into an explanation that wouldn't be laughed at. That's why they never mention Osama, religion, Shah Masood, things they don't understand and don't want to since it doesn't reinforce their world view. It's a very patronizing world view, with all the "others" of the world denied motives and interests of their own, unless the are, or can be rationalized as a "response" to America. They are retreating to Vietnam and other comfortable constructs. Right after 9/11 they pushed the "root cause" argument, but it failed in the growing light of the Osama videos and understanding of fundamentalism. That is, the "root causes" weren't what they hoped they were, and they are only interested in "root causes" if they support their prejudices - i.e., they aren't really concerned about root causes in the first place.
In the interest of fairness I would like to say this is not the same thing as saying that the U.S. deserved the attack.
This is for Ed Assner.
Please copy and forward to any American you care to.
NEVER FORGET.
I agree. But what would that hideous warthog Ed Assner hawk?
Talk about a guy whose milked his minute amount of talent for all its worth. I guess if you're a loudmouth liberal, they'll let your fat ugly self hang around and publicly molder indefinitely.
Maybe hemorrhoidal suppositories, Jock itch or yeast infection medication, or even manure spreaders.
The hell it's not ! It is just like saying the girl in the revealing dress was asking for it.
The two are not at all alike.
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