Ya Know... For Every Person Accusing Some Of Us Of Being "Purists", I Would Love To Know...

[sabrina 1]

132. I think my comment was pretty clear. I will never support her. And I hope more Democrats make that

clear NOW when it counts. Assuming they actually did oppose Bush/Cheney's massive crime in Iraq and weren't so unprincipled they cared nothing for the lives that were lost, including those of our own troops, and were just opposing it because of politics.

How can someone vote for anyone who had the chance to take a stand against the suffering of so many people? But did not do the right thing when it counted, for personal political reasons.

I remember when I was a little girl, reading about the Holocaust. I was horrified as most people were and will be as long as there are decent people on this planet.

But one thing I struggled to understand, 'how could anyone commit such crimes without the people at least TRYING to stop them'?

I never got an answer to that question. In my child's mind I, wrongly I know now, assumed most decent people would have joined together to stop it.

But now I know how it happened. I have read the writings of people who were there who explained how insidious evil can be. How 'banal' it is, mostly how when 'good people do nothing' evil flourishes and gains momentum and power until it is impossible to stop.

I will not participate in the use of great power for wrong doing. If everyone did that, Iraq could not have happened. But I learned that the murder of one million people is not that important, even with people I once respected and now I understand 'the banality' that allows such evil, and the killing and torture and maiming of untold numbers of people for PROFIT IS EVIL, at least in my mind.

One day the story of what we have done in the ME will be written, from the perspective of the victims. I want them to know that there were people in America who did try to stop it. That would be difficult to do if they continue to give power to those who participated in that awful crime.

I hope that answers your question. Which I interpret to mean you are okay with what we did in Iraq. I could be wrong, but I see no other way to interpret it.