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Questions for Conservatives
Matthew Haley, mhaley@smu.edu
Issue date: 1/31/07 Section: Opinion
Maybe Professor Webber or Abraham can work at the Bush Institute and tell me why my peers, people my age, are dying. They will say, "to make America safe, to defend my freedoms." That is a lie, and it is sickening to hear because people are being sent to war under that lie.
America is worse off now than we were when Sept. 11 happened, and how does the attack on a nation incapable of even defeating Israel, Iran or its own minority population pose any threat to my freedom? They had no WMDs (that was just the growing deception in conservative politics of lying to my face) and they had no intercontinental missiles.
Professor Abraham threw around the themes of religion with ease - an act common for conservatives - and while I live my life in accordance with your religious rules by following the guidelines of moral ethics, the Bushes and their conservative followers wallow in lies, sexual filth, greed and violence of the worst kind.
So again, spare us your rhetoric; your use of religion, terrorism, freedom, independence and all the other terms I hear conservatives say but never act on to fight for the Bush Library. It is not only irrational, but dishonest.
If you want academic independence, you do not build a Republican propaganda machine on your campus.
It is simple. If you want a safe country, you learn the facts and ignore those who use terms I cherish to describe something so horrible as rationalizing a war.
About the writer:
Matthew Haley is a senior English major. He can be reached at mhaley@smu.edu.
America is worse off now than we were when Sept. 11 happened, and how does the attack on a nation incapable of even defeating Israel, Iran or its own minority population pose any threat to my freedom? They had no WMDs (that was just the growing deception in conservative politics of lying to my face) and they had no intercontinental missiles.
Professor Abraham threw around the themes of religion with ease - an act common for conservatives - and while I live my life in accordance with your religious rules by following the guidelines of moral ethics, the Bushes and their conservative followers wallow in lies, sexual filth, greed and violence of the worst kind.
So again, spare us your rhetoric; your use of religion, terrorism, freedom, independence and all the other terms I hear conservatives say but never act on to fight for the Bush Library. It is not only irrational, but dishonest.
If you want academic independence, you do not build a Republican propaganda machine on your campus.
It is simple. If you want a safe country, you learn the facts and ignore those who use terms I cherish to describe something so horrible as rationalizing a war.
About the writer:
Matthew Haley is a senior English major. He can be reached at mhaley@smu.edu.
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posted 1/31/07 @ 3:58 PM EST
First, let's remember that Democrats voted for this war too. Also, Democrats in the Senate were calling for a troops surge months before Bush actually announced it. (Continued…)
Matthew Haley
posted 1/31/07 @ 4:05 PM EST
I want to thank everyone that has just e-mailed me in support!
I wrote this in between classes after reading an article by the mentioned Professor. (Continued…)
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