[Peace-discuss] Another Letter to editor

[Morton K.Brussel]

I've also sent 250 words to the N-G: It follows.

Invective against war protestors laces recent letters to the N-G, but 
no words address why protesters protest, or, indeed, the discredited 
reasons for the Iraq vendetta.

The main justification of these letter writers (and Bush script 
writers!) for the Iraq aggression is that Saddam H. has been a beast, 
and we had to slay him to free his subjects. But what about other 
beasts the U.S. government has countenanced— the Shah of Iran, Suharto 
of Indonesia, Marcos of the Philippines, Mobuto of Zaire, Pinochet of 
Chile, Sharon of Israel, …?  Why have we turned on this particular 
beast, whom we’ve coddled in the past when he was equally beastly.

These apologist writers avoid consideration of the innocent men, women 
and children mutilated and massacred while stalking the beast. Have 
they been liberated? What have they done to us? How many has it been 
worth slaughtering to eliminate one particular beast—moreover still on 
the loose. Are we now more free and secure; where is the evidence of 
frightful Iraqi weapons and connections to 9/11 so cynically used to 
frighten the public.

What an ideal opponent we’ve chosen; weak, strategic, oil-rich, and 
ruled by a beast. The Bush warriors are usurping our moral and physical 
resources to march backwards to the law of the jungle. They need to be 
stopped, and our troops need to stop being used as lethal pawns.

Our people are sorely deceived by fears and anxieties induced by a 
scheming administration and a fawning media.

Oh the horror!


Mort Brussel
Preferred email: brussel at uiuc.edu

Morton K. Brussel
2003 George Huff Drive
Urbana, Illinois, 61801-6203
Tel. 217 337-0118

Preferred email: brussel at uiuc.edu
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