A reader writes:
This discussion about "who is more condescending" is silly.
In the first place, there are many of us who opposed the war from the outset who didn’t attend rallies b/c we, as you say, didn’t hear our arguments being presented there. We met in churches, living rooms and coffee shops – writing letters to editors, to our elected representatives and our loved ones asking them to oppose the war. All I can do is speak for myself in knowing that I doubted the case made for the war, recognized the myopia that was Wolfowitz’s description of how the war would be prosecuted and saw clearly that those who opposed the war were told they were anti-American, unpatriotic and otherwise assaulted by ad hominem’s.
While I’m glad you have changed your mind about the war, I think you do many people a disservice by suggesting that those who were right initially were right for the wrong reasons.
My father served in the US Army for 22 years, I lived on and was eduated on army bases, I am a first-generation American on my mothers side (she is a WW2 refugee), I have owned several small business and I am active in my community and my kids schools. I am not a member of ANSWER nor are the people I worked with to oppose the war. We are Americans who love our country, the liberties it offers us and in turn the hope it offers others around the world.
I hold no position of moral superiority over you because I opposed this war before you. I hold no sanctimony that I was right before you were.
The Dish 