TIA:

I saw the footage of the students rocking back and forth from a news cast, not a talk show. I forgot which one. It was taken in Pakistan. The purpose was to show how The Islamic extremists have the hate the USA burned into their brain. It shows how the Mullahs want everybody to have one opinion, theirs. They don't want anyone capable of studying the facts and forming independent opinions.

My opinions differ from the antiwar protestors. When I present my opinions I am told that I have been influenced by other people. Maybe so but I look at both sides of the story and I develop my own opinion. I don't say the anti war protestors are stupid or anything. I don't give the stereotypes like peacemongers. If they were stupid they would not be interested.

What I am trying to say is that in my opinion, they do not think about what in the hearts and minds of the people living under a brutal dictatorship. They think that avoiding a war is best for these people. They make exaggerated, unfounded claims of how many will die. They claim that the proponents of the war have secret agendas and sinister purposes for a war. Rather than believe their own elected leaders they believe the propaganda spread by the dictators. Anybody that disagrees is a lap dog of the administration. Is an antiwar protestor that agrees with someone else a lap dog of that person?

I try to tell the antiwar protestors "Wait a minute. Have you thought about this and put your self in the position of the people under the dictatorship?" I describe graphically what these people are subjected to. In my opinion it is far worse than war. The anti war protestors do not want to face these things.

If these atrocities I present are fabricated say so. Call me an idiot if you like but to call me an idiot and not dispute the facts I present tell me that you do not want to consider the facts and form an independent opinion because it might affect the antiwar protest.

Carrying a flag around does not make ones actions justified any more than carrying around a copy of the Qur'an makes ones actions justified.

Old Guy