Reply #330: I will read your post. But Alter supported the War in Iraq.

[sabrina 1]

I am sorry to hear he had cancer but glad he has overcome it. However, many people have had health issues or other tragedies in their lives. Kucinich, eg, lost three of his siblings over the course of two years while he was fighting for a PO in Congress.

If Alter changed since the days when he supported Bush's aggressive, pre-emptive and wrong war in Iraq, I will be the first to be happy about that.

His support was based on accepting the lies told by the Bush administration. He believed that Saddam was developing nuclear weapons eg. Despite all the evidence provided, by people like Joe Wilson and others, that this was a lie.

Someone who could fall for those lies, especially at a time when what was needed, especially from people who had the kind of megaphone he had, to speak out strongly against what they were about to do, doesn't reflect a person who is capable of thinking for themselves.

He always appears to me to be an appeaser. Eg, while supporting Bush's war, he added that Bush went about it the wrong way. I guess that was meant to appease the left.

This country was at a crossroads back then. I remember well those who stood up and those who did not. Alter did not stand up. He fell for the lies. I have no idea if he has ever recanted his support as I rarely bothered reading him after that. He simply had no credibility.

If being willing to 'see the other side' and take 'action' such as writing columns in support of the war makes him an 'action liberal', then we would have to call a certain Democratic president who opposed the Iraq War in an eloquent speech around the same time, a 'movement liberal'.

Anyhow, off to read your post ....