NP; looks like the Dem Primary is kinda like Iceland Sparring.....

[Ray Easton]

On Thursday, Mar 6, 2008, at 15:15 US/Central, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:

> If Democratic voters in the US choose to sit this presidency out, 
> debating the relative merits of their centrist candidates instead of 
> making clear that candidates will have to take the criminals to 
> account, they are IMHO as complicit in the ongoing war crimes as their 
> leadership has been from the beginning.


Thomas,

No candidate who adopts the view that the leadership of this ongoing 
fiasco should be subjected to criminal prosecution --  a view I happen 
to share with you -- could possibly be elected President.  The general 
tone of your rhetoric would seem to suggest that you would not 
seriously dispute this.

So what is your alternative?  It appears that we are to allow another 
Republican administration because we cannot have what we want -- and 
what I agree is right.

But the election of another Republican President will cause very real 
and serious suffering to many, many, many Americans.  This is just fine 
with you, it appears.  Your moral concern for the welfare of human 
beings seems to only apply to *some* of them.  In particular,  it stops 
at the American shoreline.  I find this kind of selective morality 
appalling, and personally very offensive, since I, as an American, 
belong to that group of human beings that you do not deign to be worthy 
of concern.

Ray