To the Guy Who Called Me a Traitor (ARNOLD OLIVER)

[laststeamtrain]

To the Guy Who Called Me a Traitor

By ARNOLD OLIVER

I haven't heard from you for a while. Three years ago you called me a "traitor", just before the invasion of Iraq. You also wrote, "Your voice against our elected government is a voice against its people, a voice against this nation."

I guess I must have set you off with my skepticism about an Iraqi nuclear weapons program and other nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, not to mention the highly dubious claims being made that Iraq was involved with 9/11 or Al Qaeda.

I am sure that you had every intention to contact me and apologize since you were so utterly wrong about, well, everything. But I suppose you were busy.

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Many of us saw it all coming. But we were censured and ridiculed, our competence and integrity questioned, and in some cases our careers were damaged.

http://www.counterpunch.org/oliver03212006.html

[EFerrari]

1. If you haven't been taken a stand in the last five years

and you haven't been called out for that stance, you haven't been paying attention.

[bluestateguy]

2. Saying "I told you so" is so much fun

I don't care who it offends.

[laststeamtrain]

3. Say it early, say it often

Maybe it'll be a 'character builder' for them.

[Hissyspit]

4. I still want apologies, too.

But doubt they are forthcoming.

[Demeter]

5. I'll Settle for a War Crimes Trial

that would be our nation's apology to the world.