Comments for Battling the Right Wingnuts at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:04:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/856-battling-the-right-wingnuts.html#comment-1226 www.timblairisafag.com Chutney ferret you Aussie ass licker. - a guest Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:19:53 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/856-battling-the-right-wingnuts.html#comment-1103 Ed wrote:[i] If not for a credible press, we’d still be marching in Selma, Ala. for civil rights[/i]. Ed, have you ever asked yourself why the salubrious effects of the Civil War were so short lived? After 1865, Freedmen across the South were being educated, voting, winning elective office, enjoying property rights, etc. Certainly, the US Army presence ensured these rights were observed and enforced as the vanquished Southern aristocracy could only fight back through terror groups like the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Never the less, progress was being made. However, by 1876, commitment to the cause of emancipation and egaltarianism had faded among the general public and a political bargain in the disputed Hayes-Tilden Election brought Reconstruction to an unsatisfactory close. Ensuing decades would see the rise of Jim Crow as Civil Rights gains were rolled back to a [i]status quo ante[/i]. That's why 100 years after the Civil War, people were marching in Selma. Had the Federal Government stuck to it's promises in the 1870's instead of taking the easy way out, millions of lives, both black and white, would have been improved much earlier than they were. There are positive things happening in Iraq just as there are negative things happening there. That leaves us as a nation and a civilization at a crossroads. In my estimation in 2007, the heroes of the 1870's were the ones who argued to stick it out, to fulfill the promises made to the freed men and women. Political expediency and partisan calculation only put off the reckoning the South had needed to undergo. If we abandon the people of the Middle East to the "Klan with a Koran", our descendents will despise us as we despise the gutless and hateful politicians of an earlier era. My advice to 'cut and run' advocates is destroy anything you would be ashamed to have your great grandchildren read. - a guest Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:15:53 +0100 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/856-battling-the-right-wingnuts.html#comment-1097 Honestly who cares.... you sit here and complain and whine. The simple fact is if the US leave now without success even if it takes 10000 years they are a bunch of good for nothing chicken shits who shouldn't start things if they can't finish them. People have died in wars for hundreds and thousands of years, how many of them wouldn't do it again. With the help of the US if the war ends Iraq can become the South Korea of the Middle East. Is this what the people want prosperity and peace, yes. Will they have to fight for it yes. Step 1 in winning this war) Any preacher in Iraq who implies that suicide bombing, fighting other people, encourages violence immediately loses his rights to life. Send in covert ops, send in military whatever kill these men. Most of the insurgents are sheep without a shephard they will die out. - a guest Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:16:38 +0100