Michael Rectenwald responds to a CLG visitor who declares us to be "pathetic cowards"

Michael Rectenwald's reply --February 17, 2003:

William,

We do not support the dictator of Iraq, whose purported Weapons of Mass Destruction are negligible at best. Nor, however, do we support the unelected, imperious, impervious-to-the-world, American dictator, whose motives for war have nothing to do with Iraqi "liberation" or WMDs. Most likely, you do not follow the news very closely. The US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq after a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, according to Kurdish leaders who recently met American officials (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=379060). "Conquerors always call themselves liberators," said Sami Abdul-Rahman, deputy prime minister of the Kurdish administration, in a reference to Mr Bush's speech last week in which he said US troops were going to liberate Iraq. The Bush regime plans to set up a puppet state, to run the country of Iraq with military generals, and to basically exploit the country's oil, water and strategic resources. This is well known and ADMITTED by the government, but you don't READ.

We do not support an illegitimate government illegitimately forcing its iron will of imperialism against the will of the majority internationally and domestically.

Rather than being cowards, we brave the cold, police brutality and the scorn of pugilists like you, in order to express our FIRST AMENDMENT rights and our right of Assembly, as against the totalitarian impulses of the American right wing, controlling the corporate airwaves and brainwashing by corporate mediation.

Sincerely,

Michael Rectenwald
Founder and Chair
Citizens for Legitimate Government
February 17, 2003

(Listen for me on Fox News, coming soon!)

Letter CLG received --February 17, 2003:

How dare you support the bloody Iraqi dictator????. You will look even more silly and stupid than you do now, when Iraq is liberated and the full extant of his brutal , repressive rule are exposed. Institutional rape and torture is how Saddam maintains power, and you mindless twits support him !! Its truely beyond comprehension that you protest the liberation of the Iraqi people. You will be ashamed and modified when the US and Britain do what is morally right. I destest and loath your organization and everything you bird-brains stand for. I beg you to go to Bagdad and be a human shield !! Saddam will be more than happy to have you die for him.....

Sincerely,
William C.
Anchorage, Alaska
USA
February 17, 2003