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You are 100% correct when you speak about what Bush has done. In fact, this week alone Bush has issue 50,000 permits for auction for drilling of oil in the most pristine lands in America-Zion National Park in Utah. I will agree with you on the invasion of Iraq if you say that it was an illegal act. I have no idea why we went in there. Was it to go after weapons of mass destruction? That was a big lie? Was it to go after terrorists? That was even a bigger lie. I can keep going and in fact say that I think that president elect Obama should seriously reverse the comment made by one of his staff in investigating the executive branch for war and other crimes. But, pray do tell me how many articles have you seen in Salon about the recent move by Bush to auction those oil rights? How many articles have you seen to try and mobilize the people to make a difference in positive way? No, instead we have this type of nonsense that we have here: rehabilitation of a terrorist.
If your argument is that the solution to the stupidity of a Bush type of government is terrorism than we are in real trouble. It does not compute. As citizens our responsibility is to change things in a lawful way and not through killing our own fellow citizens. If as a country we make a decision to send our children to Vietnam then democratically we are expected to support that decision while at the same time we are expected to get our kids out of Vietnam but not through killing them.
Just think for a second Walter Map, this guy Ayers actually dedicated his book Prairie Fire to the killer of a man who was fighting the mafia. Yes, Robert F. Kennedy was fighting corruption and crime and Ayers dedicates a book to his killer?
