:BRIGHTSTUFF:..Personal & Political Musings & Rants by a Liberal Leftist Black & Asian Teacher

My very good friend, Phatdawg.
I posted this in my reply to him, but I think that it appropriate to post it here.
I apologize for the caps-- no, I am NOT shouting at you!:

PHATDAWG---
THE MAN WHO GOT HIS HEAD CHOPPED OFF IS NO MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS WAR THAN MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DETAINEES.
THEY ARE VICTIMS IN THIS GAME CALLED "WAR" THAT WAS DRUMMED UP BY A PRESIDENT (WHO IS A CHICKENHAWK WHO SHIRKED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE NATIONAL GUARD) AND HIS WARMONGERING HANDLERS.

THESE ACTIONS, INCLUDING THE BEHEADING, ARE AN ABOMINATION TO ALL HUMANITY.

WE DO NOT KNOW FOR A FACT THAT ANY OF THESE DETAINEES WERE GUILTY OF ANYTHING.

SOME OF THE DETAINEES (THIS IS A FACT) ARE CHILDREN.
SHOULD THEY BE HELD RESPONSIBLE?
SHOULD THEY BE TORTURED OR RAPED?

THAT YOUNG MAN, BERG, WAS AN INNOCENT VICTIM OF THIS WAR. THIS IS TRUE.

BUT LET'S BE FRANK HERE--- LET'S NOT FORGET WHO STARTED THIS WAR.

BUSH.

BUSH DID ON THE FALSE PREMISE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THAT HAVE YET TO SURFACE.

HE AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE BUILT A STRAW MAN ARGUMENT WHEN THEY CONNECTED IRAQ TO 9/11. THERE IS NO PROOF--- NONE--- THAT HAS SURFACED THAT CONNECTS IRAQ TO 9/11, BUT THERE WE ARE, AND OVER 700 OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN, NOT TO MENTION THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS, ARE DEAD FROM IT.

PLACE THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS--- AT BUSH AND HIS COALITION OF WARMONGERS.