------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Jan. 9, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
THE SPIRIT OF STROM THURMOND Sen. Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 as an open segregationist and has never repudiated his racist stance. Because Sen. Trent Lott praised the 100-year-old Thurmond at his birthday party on Dec. 5, Lott wound up losing the post of Senate majority leader, and everyone in the U.S. and awake in December became acquainted with Thurmond's racist record. The C-17 Globemaster III is a U.S. Air Force cargo plane destined to soon carry heavy equipment to the Persian/Arabian Gulf for use in a U.S. war of aggression against Iraq. It will help kill hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern people. It will be part of an enterprise that leads to the death of U.S. troops, a disproportionate number of whom will be young people of color. On Dec. 12, a week after Thurmond's birthday, the 100th to "roll off the assembly line," as the story in Air Force Link News put it. (http://www.af.mil/news/Dec2002/121202250.shtml) was christened the "Spirit of Strom Thurmond" in a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Thurmond was there as the C-17's name, painted over the crew door, was unveiled. "It's a great honor that both the name and the spirit of a great American resides with this airplane," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper that day. No further comment is needed. --John Catalinotto - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe wwnews- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support the voice of resistance http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
