Make no mistake, Frank, I have never said they do not represent me. Just that I think we need to credit them with a little more critical thinking skills than has been seen here. I wonder how they will feel if they ever hear some of the really demoralising truths about their so-called commander in chief, et alia? This is old history, but just one of the "old" causes which brought about this sorry, sad state of affairs: On 1 August 1990, the day before Iraq invades Kuwait, the US approves the sale of $695 million worth of advanced data transmission devices.

Sources: Amnesty International annual reports; Human Rights Watch World Report 1990; Third World Guide 93-94.

In the end, actions such as that will have a much greater effect than a few words spoken at the Oscars.

Can you imagine what the Civil War must have been like? ON our own soil, brother against brother? I am sure there was plenty of demoralising rhetoric to overcome then, too. It's just a fact, esp. when we do have freedom of speech.

kat