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Answers for a Liberal
Zachary Upcheshaw, zupchesh@smu.edu
Issue date: 2/2/07 Section: Opinion
And you know, Matthew, you are right. Iraq is probably just "a complete diversion" Bush concocted to "lie to the country" and engage "in a war with no point." I mean, why attack a nation with people who kidnap and behead journalists?
Why worry about a place that, after the Muhammad cartoon drawings in 2006, threatened "Europe: Your 9/11 will come"? I'm sure they weren't a potential threat at all.
However, the point of this rebuttal isn't the war in Iraq, but the Bush Library on campus, which you must see are two distinctly different issues. A Presidential Library gives a chronology of the history of the United States during the time in which a certain president was in office.
It is not a neo-conservative Republican campaign center where all these blind followers you speak of will stand in front and preach about the horrors of abortion and gay marriage. It is a place to go and review the past eight years in the history of our country.
To go back to my point at the beginning of this article; it will not necessarily be conservative. You wrote an article bashing President Bush, but when this library is built here at SMU, they will still let you in. You will still be able to go and sit in the think tank, regardless of what type of thoughts run through your head.
The Bush Library will not be an institution to poison our minds, but a place to broaden them. It will be a center for learning, for reflection, and no doubt for debate. But let the debate occur over the history contained within it, not the politics that surround it.
I have tried my best to spare you "my rhetoric" and not be "irrational" or "dishonest," but I don't deny the fact that you will probably read this and think I'm just another blasphemous terrorist in support of tyranny. Although I do disagree with just about everything you said in your article, I read it, and I considered it.
I will not "ignore those" who express an opinion different from my own, as you urged people to do in your article. Liberals are supposed to be advocates of progress, which is what will come with the addition of this library to SMU. Maybe you should try living up to the moniker you've adopted.
About the writer:
Zachary Upcheshaw is a sophomore finance major. He can be reached at: zupchesh@smu.edu.
Why worry about a place that, after the Muhammad cartoon drawings in 2006, threatened "Europe: Your 9/11 will come"? I'm sure they weren't a potential threat at all.
However, the point of this rebuttal isn't the war in Iraq, but the Bush Library on campus, which you must see are two distinctly different issues. A Presidential Library gives a chronology of the history of the United States during the time in which a certain president was in office.
It is not a neo-conservative Republican campaign center where all these blind followers you speak of will stand in front and preach about the horrors of abortion and gay marriage. It is a place to go and review the past eight years in the history of our country.
To go back to my point at the beginning of this article; it will not necessarily be conservative. You wrote an article bashing President Bush, but when this library is built here at SMU, they will still let you in. You will still be able to go and sit in the think tank, regardless of what type of thoughts run through your head.
The Bush Library will not be an institution to poison our minds, but a place to broaden them. It will be a center for learning, for reflection, and no doubt for debate. But let the debate occur over the history contained within it, not the politics that surround it.
I have tried my best to spare you "my rhetoric" and not be "irrational" or "dishonest," but I don't deny the fact that you will probably read this and think I'm just another blasphemous terrorist in support of tyranny. Although I do disagree with just about everything you said in your article, I read it, and I considered it.
I will not "ignore those" who express an opinion different from my own, as you urged people to do in your article. Liberals are supposed to be advocates of progress, which is what will come with the addition of this library to SMU. Maybe you should try living up to the moniker you've adopted.
About the writer:
Zachary Upcheshaw is a sophomore finance major. He can be reached at: zupchesh@smu.edu.
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Scott Rewak
posted 2/02/07 @ 3:30 AM EST
A few things:
You ask, rhetorically, why we should invade a nation that kidnaps and beheads journalists. There were no kidnappings and beheadings of western journalists until after we invaded. (Continued…)
Katy Rowe
posted 2/02/07 @ 12:48 PM EST
I am shocked to see an article displaying so many personal attacks against the author of another printed in the Daily Campus. However, I shouldn't be surprised, since so many of the recent articles printed by the Daily Campus have included personal attacks. (Continued…)
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