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Re: LEFT WING TRUE COLORS - YELLOW !!!!

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From: Carter Lee
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:43
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cru3l_3p1phany@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:
> In can.general Carter Lee <crlee@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
>>What exactly do you think the flower children who went to Iraq to have 
>>accomplished, other than to give Saddam and his henchmen fuel for 
>>propaganda?
> 
> 
> I don't think they've accomplished a lot, particularly since a lot of them
> have left.

I agree.  It appears they left when reality set in, something real 
soldiers can't do.

   I don't know that they've actually fueled any Iraqi propaganda,
> and if anything, they've reflected badly upon antiwar activism.

Agreed.

> 
> On a personal level, as someone who's faced guns and gunfire for my 
> activism,  I can't help but feel a bit of contempt at these fly-by-night
> "Human shields".  

I feel the same contempt, for different reasons than yours obviously.

Carter
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