Virginia Rodino - Nader Director, Antiwar Leader & Univ. Prof. Calls for US Military Defeat in Iraq

Thursday, July 14, 2005 | Kristinn

[AGreatPer]

Wonder if Bowie State has a Young Republican's Club?

[bmwcyle]

She writes for http://www.aljazeera.com/

[oldbrowser]

Wants the terrorists to win.

They say there is a fine line between genius and insanity.

[goldstategop]

Virginia Rodino deserves plaudits for her honesty. I don't agree with her views but she has my respect unlike most of the rock n roll phony baloney plastic banana Lefties out there who pretend to support our troops. She really thinks we do deserve to lose and get home and take care of things. Pat Buchanan on the far right fringe shares her sentiments. There is a current of this kind of isolationist thinking on the other side but its not more widely expressed because its a politically losing proposition in a wartime situation.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[armymarinemom]

The MFSO families should have this thrown in their face every time they open their mouths. addition

[aculeus]

Virginia Rodino is in a contest with Ward Churchill for the title of University Professor Traitor of the Year.

Both of these skunks are at public universities.

[adam_az]

GET A ROPE!

...preferably environmentally friendly hemp, of course.

[adam_az]

Green is also the color of Islam... and yes, those are body parts on the table.

[metalurgist]

Is she any relation to that POS ex senator from New Jersey, Peter, I hate guns and America Rodino.

[armymarinemom]

Dad ping

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Shocking! Guess that's why she's now at Bowie State. She's a gypsy instructor. Bowie State would have no stake in defending her honor. I think it was their turn to provide her employement.

[bmwcyle]

No tenure, no peace

[nina0113]

Virginia Rodino is in a contest with Ward Churchill for the title of University Professor Traitor of the Year

Just be grateful they're not breeding - what would they have, Baby Bennie Arnold?

[R. Scott]

I never did like Nader and the Greens.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Iraq is now the Achilles heel of the beast, the U.S. government's drive for empire. Battered, raw, exposed, this point must be the focus of the anti-Imperialist Left in the United States: Efforts must continue to strike away at this concentrated weakness.

It is a crucial moment and a critical decision. Not because the Haitians, the Palestinians, the domestic poor and abused are any less deserving of liberation, but because ultimately a victory of the Iraqi people against the U.S. war machine is a victory for liberation struggles around the globe. A military defeat in Iraq will infuse confidence into struggles everywhere, as it did when the U.S. military was forced to withdraw from Vietnam. And the U.S. military is indeed losing, despite the unconvincing bravadura recently displayed by Bush, Cheney, and the other warmongers.

Thus, the focus on Iraq and bringing the troops home is ultimately strategic, "strategizing" being a mode of practice in which a unified Left must re-adopt in order to win back the gains and confidence it lost through reactionary right-wing assaults since the McCarthy era.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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