Posted on 03/05/2003 8:59:43 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Today was the day that students were supposed to cut classes to protest the war.
I'm ashamed to say that my daughter (at least for now; the lawyer is drawing up the disownment papers) "LuAnne" (the names have been changed to protect the guilty) participated.
I realize that, most likely, this was due, in large part, to peer pressure. After all, she goes to school in Ithaca, the city of evil. Her teachers practically made going a class assignment.
Even so, I'm --as you might expect--furious, especially after all the things I've said (and posted here) about how the ant-war movement was really a "pro-Saddam" movement.
So, after a night of yelling and pouting (some of it on my part), I decided to take a break and log onto the computer.
When I sat down, I saw that LuAnne was still logged into her "hotmail" account. And there was a message with the subject line "Thanks a million" from "Supreme_ruler_Saddam@Iraq.Gov."
Seeing that, I decided that, in the spirit of homeland security, (and the fact I paid for damn computer) I should open it. After making sure my anti-virus was up to date, I clicked on the message, and this is what I found:
I just wanted to drop this note to think you for all your help.
Every time you protest the war, every time you delay the inevitable attack from the United States, you give me more time to:
Build weapons of mass destruction;
It’s a good life, ruling my own country, killing anyone just because I can. Watching them starve while making millions off my oil wells. And, thanks to you, I’m still here doing it.
I look over at Afghanistan, the last place your President liberated, and I cringe. Business is booming there, and people are coming out of poverty. Women , once treated worse than dogs, are allowed to go to school. It’s every thing I don’t want for my country: free, happy, people.
However, thanks to you, I can delay that. Maybe even prevent my people from getting freedom. With a little luck, and some more time, I just might be able to stay in power and keep committing my evil acts.
And the best part is: most of you say that you think I’m evil. But you still do your best to keep me in power.
You ignore every murderous, vicious act I’ve ever committed. You “forget” I invaded other countries. You act like I never tried to build nuclear weapons. You ignore all the evidence that Colin Powell presented , showing my ties to terrorism. When Powell showed that I was fooling the U.N. weapons inspectors, you said give the inspectors–and me–more time.
So, keep up the good work protestor. You buy me enough time, one of these days, I’ll get those nuclear weapons, those chemical weapons, those biological weapons. Then, who’ll stop me from invading my neighbors? From attacking Israel? From helping my terrorist friends fly another couple airplanes into one of your buildings?
Like I said, keep protesting the war.... And keep watching the skies.... I owe you a lot, peace protestors. Without you I’m nothing.
Your friend,
SaddamDear Peace Protestor:
Develop nuclear weapons to use against my enemies;
Hide the weapons I already have;
Rape and torture more women and children;
Murder more of my own people, like the thousands I’ve murdered already.
Bookmarked and waiting to be sent to several 'very slow' relatives and friends.
I can imagine that raising children who go to school in Ithaca is very difficult. John Derbyshire shares your pain:
Hey hey, ho ho... American schools, of course, are still sticking firmly to the Noble Savage myth. Conversation with Nellie Muriel (age 10) over the dinner table the other night. I was testing her knowledge of dates. 1492 drew a blank. JD: "Oh, come on, Nellie. 1492 — Christopher Columbus — remember?" NM: "Oh yeah. Columbus — he was a bad guy." JD: "Say what? If he was a bad guy, how come we have a public holiday named after him?" NM: "Well, that's because he started out good. He discovered America. Fine. But then he got bad. He made people slaves." JD: "Honey, up to a couple hundred years ago, everybody had slaves. India, Africa, China, Europe, the Arabs — we all had slaves. It wasn't unusual." NM: "Uh-uh. Columbus bad. He shouldn't have come here." JD: "But if he hadn't come here, there'd be nobody in America but Indians. And they had slaves. Also human sacrifice, perpetual warfare, famines, diseases and stuff." NM: "No. They were peaceful. They had democracy." JD: (Speechless.) This is a kid raised in a conservative household. We watch nothing but Fox TV, I swear.
From today's "Darts and Laurels" column in the Ithaca Journal:
DART: From Monica Joyce Hamill of Ithaca. To the person who dropped a note underneath the antiwar sign in front of my home. The missive had a picture of Saddam Hussein and a handwritten note saying. "Thank you for supporting me." Your fatuous assumptions about me and my beliefs would be laughable if they weren't chilling.
Of course I do not support Saddam and I do support our troops. But I do not support this war. Protesting the war is not unpatriotic. You, too, enjoy our First Amendment right to free speech and I invite you to advertise your beliefs on your own property; I assure that I shall not drop a note under your sign labeling you as a cowardly, un-American, right-wing ignoramus.
And, before anyone asks, no, it wasn't me who put the note in her yard.
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