Letter: Arguments of pro-war folks are ignorant

Friday, April 4, 2003 | 6:02 a.m.

The pro-war people sure are intellectually lazy. When confronting anti-war activists, instead of engaging in an honest debate over the merits of using war as a political tool, they either mindlessly accuse the other side of being traitors or they parrot platitudes doled out by the Bush administration and the corporate media. Examples: "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction"; "Remember September 11th"; and "We're liberating the Iraqi people." The first has still not been proven and was being dealt with by the U.N. inspectors. The second has everything to do with Osama bin Laden and nothing to do with Saddam Hussein, and the third is illogical as bombed people are terrorized or dead, not liberated.

Further, unlike the grass-roots anti-war movement of which I belong, the pro-war people can't even organize a rally without a corporate puppet master such as Clear Channel telling them where to meet and how hard to wave the flag.

It must be a whole lot easier to shred the Constitution and run roughshod over the world when 70 percent of the folks at home are too uninformed to put up any resistance.

SONDRA COSGROVE