Re: An Open Letter to Nader

[LeoCasey@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/30/2004 6:20:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, arn-l-owner@interversity.org writes:

> You said you believe that Al 
> Gore would have invaded Iraq.
> You said, "He 
> would have. I think he was a hawk.
> He may have done it in a different
> way." You 
> said, "[Gore] and Clinton got
> through Congress a 
> regime-change resolution as 
> a pillar of our foreign policy."
> 
> I agree.

So now we have established for us that both Nader and Stratman are so captive to blinding ideology, so incapable of engaging in critical and independent thought, so prepared to make any argument -- however implausible -- which suggests that it did not matter that Nader's campaign in Florida and New Hampshire threw the election to the Supreme Court, where the popular will of the people was thwarted, that they are prepared to make the most mind-boggling arguments that Gore would have invaded Iraq just as George W. did. Mind you, the fact that Gore was one of the most forceful critics of the Iraq invasion matters not, because once you have turned your brain over to the the dogmas of thoughtless ideology, such facts mean nothing.

"Anti-education reform" movement, indeed. The state of American education, with its "savage inequalities" among classes and races is just fine with Stratman, who is opposed to education reform.

Leo Casey

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --