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Giving Aid & Comfort. By Daniel Ingham 04/11/04 “Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!” - Joseph Addison. Where does patriotism end and treason begin? Or, where does support for the troops and aid and comfort for their enemies begin? These are questions that many have been asking and debating at some level or other since the President first aimed our collective sights at Iraq and the brutal regime that held it in it’s yoke. It’s one...

Giving Aid & Comfort, Part 2. What can one say? When it rains, it pours. And this last week, it has been mana from heaven for those who hate America. If all the Jane Fonda’s, John Kerry’s, Osama Bin Laden’s and Saddam Hussein’s of the world had convened a meeting to devise a propaganda campaign to hurt America and her defenders, they could not, in their wildest dreams, have concocted anything as effective as Abu Ghraib Prison. In a fit of blinding stupidity a handful of morons did what legions of Saddam Fehdayen could never do. They stained the reputation...