The Ice Storm & GR

[David Morris]

On 9/1/06, John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:
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> >  She thought the US deserved that 9-11 attack.
>
> Dunno about Barb. I don't think anyone ever deserves such a monstrous thing. But treating sept 11 as 'an attack', as an act of war, only made things worse, just look. It was a criminal act, responding the way Bush did was predictable but tragically wrong. Also, the concept of 'blowback' exists as I'm sure you know. The deaths that day were terrible tragedies, but they also led to Bush's fake Presidency being lent a 'war-time' strength and seeming legitimacy, and hundreds of thousands more deaths, and all the shit at home in the US, the sharp swing to the Right, the erosion of Civil Rights, and on and on. Also of course it would seem that Bush & Co. at the very least displayed incompetence in not preventing the attacks and then lied and lied and lied ever after.

I don't disagree with anything you say above.  But that doesn't mean
that invading Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and uproot Al Quaeda
wasn't a justifiable and correct thing to do.  And to take this stance
does not make one a Bush-supporter.  That Bush is a mendacious,
fear-mongering, power-hungry president is a very unfortunate side
issue.  The scope of those qualities in Bush has not always bee
apparent, but is becoming more so daily.

> Were you in favour of invading Iraq?

I'm ashamed to admit that I was duped by Bush & Company.  I couldn't
believe we could be lied to so blatantly.  I was wrong, and so was
John Kerry - another non-Bush-supporter.

> > What have I done to deserve such interest?
>
> Well, I recall you being very gung-ho about following 'your President' into 'war', and you seemed to be denying that you ever supported his actions, that's all.

Please don't pull that "your President" shit.  Its juvenile.

I don't deny anything I've said in the past, and have stated that
clearly above.  I also despise Bush.  Now you can move on...