| I cannot believe some of the words I’ve heard this past week. You’d think all this juvenile talk about the action in Iraq being uncalled for or unjust would have stopped after all we have learned in two weeks. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said this week, "Rescue this nation from a war that is wrong, that is unjust, that is immoral." What planet is he living on? If this war is not just and moral, then there has never been one that comes close. Then there were the insensitive words of democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, who said on Wednesday, "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States." He’s made similar statements before, trying to be clever, but now that we have troops in the theater of war, his comments were cruel and unnecessary. I’d even call them rather hateful and derogatory to the Iraqi people, demeaning their emotions and fear at this time. Yet, the following day, he stood by his comments and expressed his resentment toward some Republican leaders by saying, "I don't need any lessons in patriotism or in caring for America from the likes of Tom DeLay." Even today, he was still upset at the criticism, saying, "If they want to pick a fight, they've picked a fight with the wrong guy." What a jerk, he can’t even admit he made a thoughtless and ill timed comment. Poor Trent Lott - he was trampled for basically the same thing. The French just won’t let this war thing go. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin told France 3 television on Thursday, "The Americans made a triple mistake: first of all a moral mistake, and I think we have to say this: there was an alternative to war. We could have disarmed Iraq differently." “Also, a political mistake, because we know very well the difficulties of this region of the world," he added. "We see how serious the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, and at any moment it can set the world ablaze. It's a serious political error to start trouble in this region.” "And then, there is a strategic mistake: that today one country can lead the world," he declared. France has reasons for what they are doing. I do not know what those reasons are; I’ve just had my suppositions as have many others. The truth will come out and France will have to face their karma. I am so thankful that my children are past college age. After statements made by a college professor recently, I really don’t know if I’d feel comfortable having my children in college today. Columbia University assistant professor of anthropology, Nicholas DeGenova, spoke at a faculty sponsored antiwar teach-in. This event was intended to provide an intellectual discussion about the crucial events of our time. It turned out to be an open forum for radical leftist professors to say whatever they wanted. There were 30 Columbia educational staff present. DeGenova was the most radical. "Peace is not patriotic," DeGenova stated. "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one in which we live - a world where the U.S. would have no place." "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he went on. "U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military." DeGenova feels, "the only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military." "I wish," he declared, "for a million Mogadishu’s" on U.S. troops in Iraq. This, my friends, is NOT anti-war language. This IS anti-American language. This is not about PEACE, it is about HATE. This has nothing to do with the war in Iraq. The issue of the war has only given these sorts of people, who hold strong contempt for America and her values, a larger platform to preach their hate. Wishing, "for a million Mogadishu’s", is the most hateful statement I’ve heard so far. It not only makes me angry, it hurts me at a deep level. It hurts me because people who genuinely hold this much hate for America are teaching our youth. DeGenova is just filled with hatred. DeGenova has a right to his opinion, but he doesn’t even consider the rights of others when opens his mouth. What about the families of the troops in the field? What about the wives of the soldiers? They very well may be students at Columbia University. Did he think about how they may feel and how this hurts them? What happens when our troops come home? Will they be registering at Columbia??? Yet, as of today, Columbia has not done a thing about Professor DeGenova. After spending a lifetime raising your children to be responsible, loving, and concerned adults, you send them off to college to further their education, and what are they exposed to? No wonder they come home after the first semester, totally confused and don’t seem to be the people they were when they left. Then there is Peter Arnett. What he did was purely and simply traitorous. There’s no other way to describe it. Arnett gave an interview to Iraqi television as a “professional courtesy”. Everything he said was an outright lie. He was just pandering to the Iraqi leadership. I truly wonder if Peter Arnett is mentally ill and has run out of medication. Arnett had a job by the end of the day. The Daily Mirror, a leftist newspaper in London, will be signing his next paycheck. What a lucky break for Arnett and America. I feel sorry for the residents of London, they don’t deserve that. It is past time for everyone to wake up and see that this war was necessary for many reasons. We have found out so much already about the cruelty and inhumanness of the Saddam Hussein regime. What will it take to change the minds of the nay Sayers? The freedom of the Iraqi people is totally meaningless to most of them and that may very well be the worst part of it all! In my heart, freeing the Iraqi people is the most important part of this war. It is what LOVE would do! Shortie 04-04-03 4:00 PM |
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