LTTE “On Rice’s rights folly” Anniston Star, Alabama

[jody]

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Condoleezza Rice’s comparison of the Iraq war with the Civil Rights movement is so patently absurd that my 9-year-old noticed and commented on it. Rice and I both grew up in Birmingham during the Civil Rights era, and though our experiences were certainly quite different, I believe my own memory of that time and place is nonetheless valid.

What I remember of Birmingham in the 1960s was bad enough — “white” and “colored” water fountains and restrooms, racist chants and graffiti, TV footage of bombings and white-robed Klan, fire hoses and police dogs turned on protesters. I do not, however, remember any foreign superpower bombing our cities, killing civilians by the tens of thousands, and occupying our country for the ostensible purpose of defending itself against alleged weapons of mass destruction, deposing a corrupt ruler, exporting democracy, or whatever rationale for the Iraq war happens to be currently in vogue.

Rice’s arguments are axiomatic. Who would oppose the ideals of freedom and democracy? But aside from the strained credibility inherent in the Bush administration’s serial justifications for this war, it seems significant that civil rights in this country were fought for and won by an oppressed segment of our own population, inspired and motivated by principles of nonviolence.

Rice’s specious comparison seems more than anything a desperate attempt on the part of a corrupt administration to justify a failed policy in general, and in particular the continuation of an illegal and immoral war that is inconceivably costly in political, economic, and human terms.

Richard Evans
Tuscaloosa
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[NewJeffCT]

1. nice letter Mr. Evans

Though, I think his 9 year old child may be more mentally advanced than some Freepers!

[itzamirakul]

2. I was shocked when Rice spoke at Rosa Parks Memorial because

at one point a couple of years ago, Rice actually said that the Civil Rights Movement was unnecessary and that if black people had just been patient and waited a bit more, segregation would have ended on its own.

She is a pure, unmitigated fool.

[Fridays Child]

3. Has she been a token all of her life? Can Condi not "see the forest...

...for the trees?" Or is she just a lying, cynical shitwad?

[jody]

4. She could be both. n/t

[NNadir]

5. This is a very eloquent letter.

It cuts right through the nonsense like butter.