Ah, just want to say -- it feels like such a relief to be in territory where I am not the enemy!

I have frequented another board or two where I am constantly called Commie and Pinko, "you leftie," "you libs," and I waste my breath sometimes just mustering up arguments against the attacks. Currently on one of those boards (a health board with a social forum), we were told by the moderator, a Canadian who is pro-Israel and presumably for war -- to basically "shut up" during war time, no war threads allowed. Except an evangelical Christian started a prayer thread for the troops -- that was allowed! I wanted to post on there about praying for the Iraqi people, too -- the child I read about who has been asking his mother, "Why do the Americans want to come here and hurt us, Mommy? Will the Americans come in my bedroom and kill me?" The kind of psychological scars that never go away.

Right now, like so many of you, I get angry whether or not someone agrees with me -- but I really don't mind preaching to the choir once in awhile.