NP? religion and War

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on 4/6/03 2:20 PM, Elainemmbell at aol.com at Elainemmbell at aol.com wrote:

Many thanks for directing attention to the McGovern piece.  I wrote the
editors an immediate thank you as well:

Thank you so much for daring to publish George McGovern's beautifully
reasoned and elegantly phrased essay of sorrow about the Iraq war.  After
more than 30 years of wondering about it, I still fail to understand why
people of Mr. McGovern's calibre are relegated to the sidelines of
statesmanship where they are allowed only to watch and (by some enlightened
publications)comment on the arrogant blunders of a parade of Presidents
unworthy of the moral duties of the office, rather than themselves fulfill
those duties.

I am proud to note that I lived and voted in Massachusetts when George
McGovern won that one Commonwealth's wholehearted support for the Presidency
he sadly never will assume.  George W. Bush, among others I need not name,
should be ashamed to stand in the place where a better man was never
allowed. 

Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225 

This was also the first time that I have ever heard McGovern comment on his
war record. I read somewhere a long time ago that he was the highest
decorated veteran to ever receive a major party nomination for president. My
father was a WWII bomber pilot. It was the most dangerous job in the service
at the time (ok, tailgunners had an absurd fatality rate). I know what it
means. That he never allowed that to be exploited for political purposes is
a tribute to George McGovern's integrity. He thought it unseemly.

We now have a draft-dodging rich boy chicken hawk in the White House sending
patriotic Americans off to kill or be killed for his own vanity. To waste
professional soldiers for the egotism of a man who thinks God has a special
plan specifically for him is a crime against America.

Dubya has got to go.

Peace
Joe 
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