[Culturechat] Newsmax.com: It's True: 'Liberals' Wanted Saddam to Beat U.S.

[Boris Sojka]

This is an example of one of the worst forms of demagogary that I've seen on
this chat room.
To state, "It's True, 'Liberals' Wanted Saddam to Beat U.S.'" paints us all
with the same muckraking brush. It's too easy to wrap oneself in the flag
and state that all who disagree are traitors.
I'm a Liberal, proud of my beliefs, am a Korean War Vet, Returned Peace
Corps Volunteer and very much against the Bush policies. Does that also make
me a cheerleader for the enemy?
I wonder sometimes who really is the enemy?

Boris Sojka

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Beat U.S.


> Full Article:
> http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/18/162336
>
> Excerpt follows:
>
> Friday, April 18, 2003
> It's True: 'Liberals' Wanted Saddam to Beat U.S.
>
> Gary Kamiya, executive editor of the left-leaning Internet journal Salon,
> confirms what some Americans have suspected: Liberals were cheering for
the
> enemy in Iraq, the Washington Times pointed out today in an item headlined
> "Cheering the enemy."
>
> "I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly
> wished for things to go wrong," Kamiya wrote. "Wished for the Iraqis to be
> more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up
in
> rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A
> number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the
war
> have told me they have had identical feelings."
>
> But surely, you object, these "serious, intelligent, morally sensitive"
> liberals couldn't possibly favor a mass-murdering, torture-loving
dictator?
> Surely they couldn't agree with "Latino studies" assistant professor
Nicholas
> De Genova, who told a cheering crowd of appeasement activists at Columbia
> University that he "would like to see a million Mogadishus." Think again.
>
> More dead American troops would have been preferred to the "larger moral
> negative" of a victory that boosted President Bush's chances for
re-election,
> according to the Salon big.
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