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| 2004-10-18 | ||
| Snipped from the Chicago Tribune Magazine (yes the same paper that endorsed Pres. Bush) For the last 25 years, the 51-year-old Kathy Kelly has been nowhere near the sidelines. She has been willing to go anywhere in the world-Bosnia, Haiti, the West Bank-to do whatever she can to help victims of violence and demonstrate for peace. As long as the activity is non-violent, she has been willing to be arrested again and again. She has been willing to go to jail again and again. She has even been willing to die. Just before the start of the war in Iraq last year, while most foreign diplomats and journalists heeded President Bush's warning to leave Baghdad within 48 hours, Kelly stayed behind in a small hotel near the banks of the Tigris River. "I was determined not to let the bombs have the last word," she says. Her defiance of the sanctions has prompted questions about whose side she is on. She has been criticized, even by some in the peace movement, for not being nearly as tough on former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his brutal dictatorship as she has been on sanctions and other measures to curb his power.
I have to ask: what has she actually accomplished? Did she end the cold war? Did she eliminate Saddam and free Iraqis? Seems to me like a lot of empty gestures. | ||
| Posted by:Spot |
| #17 I think I met her about 10 years ago. No kidding. It was in Chicago and although she was nice (and could've even been pretty if she'd used a bit of make up), there was something about her that made me think she wasn't even in the room as she was talking. I think she is a little "pixle-ated" and I believe she gets funds through fundraisers at benefits, etc., run by hippies, anarchists, & the like. She's with some quasi-Catholic, crypto-socialist group called "Voices in the Wilderness". |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-10-18 10:22:20 PM |
| #16 Kelly’s view of the sanctions is that they have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. As for Hussein, she despised his murderous regime but says that being openly critical of him would have meant expulsion from Iraq and the end of her mission. "It was a tightrope to walk," she admits. "If we did a demonstration in Iraq, we’d get booted right out of there." This is known as "Eason Jordan Syndrome". |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-18 9:46:16 PM |
| #15 You have to wonder where she gets the funding for her full-time "peacenik" job. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-10-18 6:08:59 PM |
| #14 I have no problem with people being anti-war as long as they are consistent about it (who in their right mind wants war as the first option anyway). If you are against war be against all war. Be against Milosovich killing Bosnian Muslims, be against Muslims in Sudan killing Animists and non arab Muslims, be against the civil wars in Africa, be against the butchering of Christians in East Timor. But we can't expect that because those aren't operations being conducted by the evil Western Nations (read the USA and/or surrogates). If the anti-war protesters in Feb. 2003 had any real solidarity with the people of Iraq they would of been protesting against the butcher Saddam. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2004-10-18 5:04:02 PM |
| #13 The important thing to remember about people like this, is despite what they say, what they do is for their own personal benefit, and to hell with everybody else. Their self-pity is astronomical, and they wish to project it outward on someone or something else. Compare them with those who have Munchausen Syndrome--usually mothers who injure their own children, craving attention from doctors, and to be able to fret a lot over their poor, injured child. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-10-18 1:47:03 PM |
| #12 Perhaps she thinks planting corn and sunflowers is best left for illegal immigrants at slavery wages.... Her 'holy mission' is to important to actually constribute anything to the general welfare of her victims.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-18 1:35:13 PM |
| #11 The main reason I posted this was that when I read the article I kept thinking to myself: if you truly believe your values, why not do something useful? Leftists spend all their time making "gestures' (such as "helping" American Indians by changing the nicknames of school sports teams). If this woman really wanted to help the Iraqi children, why didn't she make sure the Oil-for-Food program was running properly? But no, it was the sanctions fault. Grrr, do something useful or STFU! |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-10-18 1:27:05 PM |
| #10 what a fucking twit! She doesn't even know how to plant corn and sunflowers? I was raised in the city. My dad had to drive us to another city to see cows at dairy farms that have long (20+ years) since been overtaken by housing developments. Even I know how to plant sunflowers and corn. How hard is that? What a fucking twit! |
| Posted by: goolkjdk0tlkj; 2004-10-18 12:49:18 PM |
| #9 I'm imagining an infomercial here . . . "You, too, can have a rewarding career as a professional moonbat. Travel the world, meet terrorists and dictators, . . . " "…suffer lethal head trauma when a chuck of debris falls off the bulldozer you're trying to block…" |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-10-18 12:34:26 PM |
| #8 I'm imagining an infomercial here . . . "You, too, can have a rewarding career as a professional moonbat. Travel the world, meet terrorists and dictators, . . . " |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-10-18 12:28:47 PM |
| #7 As for Hussein, she despised his murderous regime but says that being openly critical of him would have meant expulsion from Iraq and the end of her mission. It's the CNN defense. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-10-18 12:23:13 PM |
| #6 Be it missiles, PLO violence, or Iraq they can’t fault the bad guys. That's because the bad guys have a habit of killing people who defy them. Opposing the US allows them to play hero and martyr without the risk of injury. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-10-18 12:20:09 PM |
| #5 I'm sure Saddam was willing to give her a small allowance. Like someone said - a usefull idiot. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-10-18 12:11:55 PM |
| #4 how does she support herself? grants from Terayza's Tides Foundation? Soros's loonies? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-18 11:47:07 AM |
| #3 These people are on the side of the bad guys or they are useful idiots. Results are the same. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-18 11:45:47 AM |
| #2 ...to do whatever she can to help victims of violence and demonstrate for peace... As for Hussein, she despised his murderous regime but says that being openly critical of him would have meant expulsion from Iraq and the end of her mission. Yeah. "Whatever"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-18 11:45:21 AM |
| #1 Spot, people, like her won’t ever admit they were wrong. Be it missiles, PLO violence, or Iraq they can’t fault the bad guys. And make no mistake they are on the side of the bad guys. Just ask someone like this how many ‘anti-war’ rallies were held against Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and you’ll get a really twisted answer. Ask them how many ‘elections’ have been held in all the Arab countries over the past 10 years. And of them how many had UN monitors? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-18 11:33:41 AM |