re: #4 alinuxguru

Sorry, this article seems to neglect Code Pink, UFPJ, PSM, and other fringe anti-war groups. It seems to give these virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American groups a free pass. Do you paint every registered Republican the same as Michele Bachmann or Paul Ryan?

What about what happened to the Dixie Chicks? Organized CD burnings and crushings, bans on their music at radio stations, DJs being suspended for playing their music anyway to protest the bans. All because they dared to criticize the Presidents push for war and said they were embarrassed that he came from Texas (like all of them did).

I didn’t read read anything about giving “giving anti-semitic and anti-American groups a free pass” into that article. What I read concerned writers and media figures use of their position to belittle, disparage and call unpatriotic anyone attempting to voice what turned out to be very legitimate concerns about President Bush’s rush to war in Iraq. In fact the authors main focus is on how these people have since come around to share the viewpoint that the war was a mistake but have never publicly acknowledged or confronted the role they played in helping it to make it happen.

If we learn nothing from our mistakes, if we deny them, if we ignore them, or worse pretend that they simply never happened, then we are surely doomed to repeat them…