[Peace-discuss] *Fools rush in with "political agenda"

[Morton K. Brussel]

Dear Jan,

Don't feel bad, even if feeling bruised.

I guess a response to this Rudzinski letter is:

What did the man in uniform not tell the students about their  
country's actions in Iraq, and its reasons for attacking Iraq.

Words about "safe, ready, responsible and respectful" (but not  
skeptical?) are cheap, as our current President makes clear. Actions  
speak louder…, and the destruction of Iraq is an example of our actions.

Whose "safety" is to be safeguarded?
What should we be "ready" for?

On what basis did that guy appear at the school? Can we have a  
session with the students to respond to his talk? Would he give us  
the text of his talk?

I'd ask for a rejoinder.

Mort



On Sep 6, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Jan & Durl Kruse wrote:

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> School speaker critic shows her ignorance
> Wednesday September 6, 2006
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> Jan Kruse's letter to the editor in last Thursday's News-Gazette  
> concerning the Army officer who spoke to students at Carrie Busey  
> School was a blatant misrepresentation of the event and a cheap  
> cynical shot to further her political agenda.
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> I am the speaker at Carrie Busey School to whom she referred, and  
> my talk was on how being ready, safe, responsible and respectful  
> were universal qualities that have value in school and in life. It  
> was not recruitment or indoctrination or any other phantasm usually  
> imagined by the "bash America always" crowd.
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> It was neither a political stump speech nor a treatise on why  
> American military personnel are in Iraq. It was a personal  
> perspective on the four qualities I mentioned. It was told with  
> sincerity, pictures, an Arabic lesson, and a little humor.
>
> Kruse doesn't know what she's talking about. She wasn't with me at  
> Carrie Busey nor was she with me in Kuwait or Iraq. I suspect she  
> hasn't been in a lot of other places I have been either.
>
> But that's OK. Kruse has the right to be ignorant as well as to  
> express her opinion. These are her rights as an American. I will  
> remind her though, what Abraham Lincoln said: "Better to remain  
> silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
>
> MICHAEL RUDZINSKI
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> Rantoul
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> Find this article at:
> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2006/09/06/ 
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