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Originally posted by dave
Hey, in the interest of full disclosure, Scott Ridder *has* received payments from a prominent Iraqi-American businessman with family in Iraq.
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Full disclosure. Lies by telling half truths would be more like it. He was hired to speak his opinion in Iraq before a Congress. He told them exactly what he was telling us before he was hired to make that trip and speech. Suddenly the other half of the truth makes a big difference in the conclusion.
Scott Ridder, by telling the facts as they really are, is what is called a patriot. Enemies of America have opinions - then seek facts to provide those opinions - even when no such facts exist. (Johnson, Nixon and now George Jr).
Others faced the same neanderthal attitude in the days of VietNam. How many patriots were labeled at traitors because they told the truth about VietNam? Need we remember Nixon's enemies list? Even John Lennon made the list only because he advocated peace. Some 'traitors' included one of the toughest American Marines who went alone into enemy territory without escort to learn facts. Daniel Ellsberg I believe his name was. Eventually he discovered the same truths we all later learned in the Pentagon Papers. But in the meantime, a naive public labeled him as a traitor - because, like Ridder, he told the truth in direct contradiction to a president that did not want us to know the truth.
Careful who is labeled as a traitor. It makes one an enemy of America just as all those who advocated 'bombing VietNam into the stone age". Fools are those who fail to learn the lessons of history. Scott Ridder is what America needs more of - a man willing to take risks in order to expose facts.