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Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill Ayers talks back

Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.

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  • Monday, November 17, 2008 11:03 AM

    @Juan Enrique

    "It all depends on whether hate blinds you!"

    -- Juan Enrique

    You must mean the kind of hatred that lies in the hearts and minds of the most morally bankrupt administration in US history - the Bush Administration. I'm not pro-killing, that's more the province of devoutly religious folks like Republicans.

    Maybe to you blowing the heads, arms, and legs off men, women, children, babies -- burning them to death with chemical weaponry, destroying their infrastructure (from their homes to their water supply) -- the young, the old, infants, toddlers, innocent people all – is no big deal, or someone else's fault, or whatever "convenient justification" you give yourself for the over one million dead and displaced people killed by the terrorist madman in the White House.

    It would have been nice while Saddam Hussein was Ronnie Reagan's friend & freedom fighter throughout the 80’s (by the way, explain how the Reagan/Rumsfeld/Bush ties to Hussein isn’t a thousand times worse than any ties between Ayers & Obama?), and he was slaughtering Iraqis with not only the Reagan administration's overt blessings, but also with the Reagan administration's chemical weapons, that the johnny-come-lately's who today rail about Hussein’s “mass graves” poo-pooed those crazy leftists like me saying we didn't want our tax dollars going to fund a homicidal maniac. Only to have George W Bush come along 12 years after Reagan to pick up the Hussein franchise, and torture & murder more Iraqis than Saddam could have ever imagined to have done in 5 & 1/2 years.

    I know those inconvenient truths are not acknowledged on the sources you get your news from (which probably includes an unhealthy dose of the propaganda from the foreign-owned FOX network) and none of that bothers you as long as reality is avoided like the plague from the sources you go to.

    Apparently, if the terrorism is committed under the auspices of christianity or republicanism then it's not as bad as those committed under the auspices of Islam.

    "You said Ayers did not kill anyone but surely he tried."-- Juan Enrique

    Unfortunately, George W Bush did! Over one million and counting! And that was with MY tax dollars! That bothers me a shitload more than some asshole from 40 years ago (most likely that you never even heard of till Rush Limbaugh clapped his hands and you came running) who never killed anyone - and didn't commit his terrorism on my dime!!!

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