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willing to kill more innocent people because
“Saddam tried to kill my daddy.” Some might
think he didn’t get his fill of killing people he
doesn’t know while he was governor of
Texas.
What if we are judging him wrongly? If
we look at what he has done to bring the peo-
ple of the world together in a common cause
for peace it is hard to find anybody his equal.
He has done more in a year to get people to
talk about world peace than all the world lead-
ers put together since Biblical times.
Now is the time to step forward George,
with your real agenda: peace. I can’t wait
until you step upon the world platform
and announce, “Now that I have your
attention …”
Dick Blackstone
Springfield
“Rights” of Spring
Since the war started in Iraq,
I’ve seen an increase of
U.S. flags hanging in
my neighbors’ man-
icured lawns (a
gesture most of
us recognize as
showing sup-
port for Bush’s
war on Iraq).
Now as spring
warms up, I see
many of my neigh-
bors outside on their
knees to garden, to prime
the soil, to look forward (I
imagine) to the renewal of life, to yet, anoth-
er spring. And, I wonder how many of these
“patriots” would give up their spring for this
war (like the millions of Iraqi citi-
zens have had to do without
giving consent) if they
knew that bombs
to
destabilize
Saddam’s regime
were going to
rain down on
Eugene instead
of on Baghdad
this
spring?
Imagine, we’ve
waited all year for
blue skies and warm
days, then to have to hole
up in our homes under ominous
skies, maybe, gasp, throughout the summer!
Comfortable homeowners with their mani-
cured lawns would have to exchange compost
bags for sandbags and body bags, spades to
plant flower bulbs with shovels to bury their
dead. The fear that they might be the ones
dying in this war might have them joining
those “obnoxious” anti-war protesters and
shouting, “Bulbs not Bombs!”
Even though we are safe here in Eugene,
the flag-hanging “patriots” should ask them-
selves, “Is this a war I’m willing to die for?”
George Bush has tried to convince you that
Saddam is a threat to his country, to our lives
and to our freedom; but few, I bet, have been
convinced enough to answer “yes” to the
above question. Why is it then that so many
blustering war-wagers accuse anti-war pro-
testers of being sniveling, whining wimps
who are afraid to fight? Are they signing up to
join the military? Do they believe flag-hang-
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