[lbo-talk] Petition to Free Italian and Iraqi Aid Workers Abducted in Baghdad

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 10 10:52:46 PDT 2004


Liza Featherstone wrote:


>I'm sorry, it seems asinine in the extreme to assume that because this
>kidnapping serves US gov't interests, and is cruel and barbaric, that the
>CIA is behind it. There are evil forces besides our own government, believe
>it or not.
>
>And, this petition seems well-intentioned enough, but to whom is it
>addressed? The kidnappers? How will you deliver it to them?

Mitch, wanna hand-deliver it?

Do the people who wrote and who are signing this petition really think it's going to have any influence on the kidnappers? Thugs who'd kidnap antiwar activists are probably immune to such appeals. Why do leftists do such embarrassing things?

Doug



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