NP - Fighting the Forces of Invisibility

[Doug Millison]

I fail to see how it can be "savage" to expect the
Bush Administration to give people time to mourn
instead of taking advantage of their shock and anger
to push through questionable legislation designed to
get us in a war before we can think about what we're
doing.

Re the insurance, I do put a higher priority on people
and feelings than on property.  If that makes me a
"savage", so be it. Propery owners in NYC will be
compensated for their losses, either through insurance
or through government bailouts.  I've already
contributed money to a fund that is sponsoring
counseling services for the victims of the attacks in
NYC and Washington, D.C.  (You can, too -- the Hope
from the Rubble fund at
http://www.ucc.org/disaster/d091901a.htm)

Lending unquestioning support to the same leadership
team (Powell, et. al.) that gave us hundreds of
thousands of innocent civilians killed in Iraq in
order to keep the oil and profits flowing - there's a
course of action that might more properly be
criticized, in my opinion.

At any rate, my point re Rushdie's diatribe stands
unchallenged.  Virtually everything I've read in
response to the attacks, and commenting upon the U.S.
reaction to them, has condemned the attacks.  Nobody,
to my knowledge, has tried "to excuse the atrocity" as
Rushdie claimed.

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Aren't you the guy that complained that the Bush
> administration was
> cutting the Nation's need to mourn too short so that
> they could jump
> start the war economy, but couldn't help 
> but remind us mourning that the buildings were
> insured anyway? 
> 
> That was savage Doug. Savage.


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