[GailA]

FYI

[RAT Patrol]

Excellent!

Why aren't more people pointing this out: So, some people are upset. An entire dovecote of "anti-war activists" (at least for this war, and for this president - they were far less dovish when Bill Clinton attacked Serbia) is chirping its alarm over the fact that we have a president who understands that his principal task is the protection of our lives and interests.

[ez]

good one

[SAMWolf]

Bump! Excellent article GailA.

[SpottedBeaver]

Ping!

If you can't convince anyone with this, then they just don't want to listen.

[palmer]

Anybody who doesn't think Saddam is a threat both to his neighbors and the West has not been paying attention - deliberately, I believe, because U.N. inspectors themselves say he has tons of lethal stuff he won't account for - but those speeches should satisfy all but the same people who attended the "March for Peace."

I believe it all except that he's a threat. There's undoubtedly WMD in Iraq: he has used WMD, he has continued to develop them, etc. But it's hardly a threat to us or even to his neighbors. There are plenty of defensive measures if he attacks anyone directly. As for giving them to terrorists, there is absolutely no hard evidence for any such thing.

[Mr. Silverback]

How did a Memphis lady like yourself get on to M.D. Harmon? I'm from Maine originally and have enjoyed his stuff for years. He wrote a column a few years back on how Portland's "human rights" (read: Gay and Transgendered special rights) had led to persecution of a Christian who fled the Soviet Union to avoid religious persecution. It was one of the best pieces I've ever read.

[knak]

This reminds me, my husband tells about something he saw on TV one day. A rally to stop the execution of a man on death row. TV anchors were asking people in the crowd questions. They asked one man that was holding a sign with the killers name on it if he knew who the killer was or that he was a cop killer. The man said "Oh, I didn't know that, someone just told me to hold this sign and I thought it would be fun". The man put his sign down and proceeded to leave.

[Cacophonous]

An interesting post for two reasons:

1....An entire dovecote of "anti-war activists" (at least for this war, and for this president - they were far less dovish when Bill Clinton attacked Serbia)...

Similarly, there is a vast inconsistency on the part of the War Party: they vehemently protested Clinton - and rightly so - but line up behind Bush. Smacks of pure party politics.

2. He points out what a lot of the GOP/War Party crowd seems unable to recognize: those opposed to war with Iraq are not a monolithic bunch. Like the author's friend, I oppose this action in Iraq, but I want nothing to do with the marxists, socialists and leftists that make up the bulk of these war protests.

The War Party's labeling any differing opinion as "un-American" and "un-patriotic" is both wrong, insulting, and, frankly, bad rhetoric.

[fight_truth_decay]

The Smoking Gun ..that is used descriptively throughout the media is a poor analogy. The smoke is post-fire not pre-fire.

[Centurion2000]

This author forgets something .... liberals WANT a smoking gun like he mentioned ... why ?

Because it allows them to turn on Bush and attack while saying "He failed to protect the nation"

You just watch; if we get a WMD attack they will be all over him.

[RonF]

"Oh, but the marchers didn't necessarily support that? OK, think about who would go to a civil rights march sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan, and then wonder why ANSWER's sponsorship was fine by those attendees." This presumes that people in the march knew who what sponsoring it, and if so knew anything about ANSWER. I'm sure that all many of them knew was that someone was organizing an anti-war march, and so they joined it. Although I am dismayed to hear of the anti-Americanism that one person said he saw there.

[Momaw Nadon]

Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"But then I saw with my own eyes the hypocrisy and vicious hatred that so many marchers had for America. Mike, those people were openly anti-American. I saw it with my own eyes. You could cut the anti-Ameri- canism with a knife. . . . The ANSWER event was not a peace march - it was a virulent anti-American march. . . ."

Sometimes it might almost makes us want to invite the Chinese in to deal with such as this bunch of UGLY throwbacks to the 60's (remember that the recently Ex-42 was one of them in the 60's . . . did his thing in England AND Moscow).