>I saw some of the names. My question again is what are they doing now.
>Are they truly independent or is there a thread in what they do or
>who's supporting them.
You know me. I'm the biggest cynic of them all. McPeak is an advisor to
the Kerry campaign. As far as I've been able to determine, the others are
not affiliated with anything more radical than the Democratic party. A
lot of them are Republicans who no longer feel they can support Bush.
William Harrop, the former ambassador to Israel, heads a non-profit that
provides birth control, clean water, and AIDS treatments to 3rd world
countries. Stansfield Turner is a research scholar at the University of
Maryland. The other retired generals I assume are "retired".
I would consider all of these people experts in their field. It baffles me
that their stance would be written off as anti-Bush bias, instead of being
taken for the serious warning that it is.
It takes some degree of courage to stand up and do what they did in today's
political environment, knowing that as soon as they signed their names to
that document Karl Rove would have his character assassins out in
force. The talk shows were all over the fact that 10 members of the group
had given money to Democrats. Well, so what? That means 16 of them
haven't, and last time I checked, it wasn't illegal to donate to a
political campaign.
Some days I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness trying to point out
the extreme damage being done to this country by the current
administration. It felt pretty good to read that letter and know that
others, with considerably more knowledge than me, felt the same way.
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