crazyhorse
Being raised in a Jewish household I am troubled by Jews who lived through WWII actively supporting the torture and murder sponsored by the Bush administration.

Amos
I do not think for a moment that any good will be served by calling war supportors, war criminals. I do think it is enough for people to ask themselves how certain lives and families would be different had they opposed this ill advised invasion of Iraq.

lox
Yes of course all posts are subjective to the author.
Here are the unabashed undercurrents of my question;

I have also found that political cartooning was cathartic in dealing with the outrageous misfortunes of this administration.
Without that editorial release, the frustration has seemingly ulcerated my soul with a hatred for war mongers, war criminals and the hopelessly inept.

The loss of 10 years of my illustrated poems on a whim of the Lycos internet provider corporation falls on the heals of the lifework of both my father and mother being lost. They were both writers and all their books and manuscripts were destroyed by my fathers caretaker when she mistakenly thought his house and estate was hers.




I neither need nor want to be loathsome of my pro war fellow Americans.

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SO I LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE BUSH AND IRAQ SITUATION.
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there are at least half a dozen good things.

#1 !!! The Iraqi that remain in Iraq if polled today would still support the US invasion if it was done all over again by a huge 70%
(as said by a NYT reporter interviewed by Rose)

#2 !!! The Bush administration, its radical christian fundamentalist base and its powerful grip on radio and TV media could have done far more damage to America.

They could have begun a cultural cleansing campaign that could have resembled the 3rd Reich or Mao's Red Guard.

When the great media purge began we lost people on MSNBC like Phil Donahue who was replaced by John Savage. John Savage called for the arrest of all anti war demonstrators on sedition charges. Bill Mahre was fired from ABC. It seems Roger Moore is still in hiding. We lost Dan Rather. We lost 2 Bush biographers to suicide. Journalists have been stripped of the convention of keeping sources confidential but at least they are safer than Russian of Chinese journalists.

#3 !!! Katrina may have put the brakes on more insidious plans and opened the eyes of many average Americans. (talk about the darkest cloud having a silver lining)

#4 The enitre world including our last ally Britain are seeking an end to the major hostilities in Iraq.

#5 If another false flag terrorist act should occur in the US there will be more critical eyes and more critical questions than last time. (this idea probably rankels people who believe every word of the 9-11 commission)

#6 Germany is addressing the war crimes by US CIA rendition* agents
(*kidnapping and torture) by bringing charges in a court of law.

#7 Just as our own civil war lasted far beyond reconstruction and to a certain extent to this very day, so will the middle east sectarian violence with or without our "help".

#8 In short, it coulda been a whole lot worse. (I'm keeping my
fingers crossed.)


#9 For healing words we can look back to the Gettysburg address and forward to Obama.