In the US, perhaps t…

In the US, perhaps there still is hope for the peace movement. None other that Nat Hentoff, writing for the Village Voice, says that, even if you don’t buy the WMD reasons for going into Iraq, or if you do believe that it’s all about oil, there is still at least one very, very good reason to take out Saddam anyway:

As I told The New York Sun in its March 14-16 roundup of New Yorkers for and against the war:

“There was the disclosure . . . when the prisons were briefly opened of the gouging of eyes of prisoners and the raping of women in front of their husbands, from whom the torturers wanted to extract information. . . . So if people want to talk about containing [Saddam Hussein] and don’t want to go in forcefully and remove him, how do they propose doing something about the horrors he is inflicting on his people who live in such fear of him?”

Hentoff admits his lack of admiration for Bush (no real revelation there), but he goes on to savage the UN and Bill Clinton for not acting. And he lauds Tony Blair for his speech to the House of Commons laying out the humanitarian case for taking out Hussein.

What’s most heartening to me about this article is that it’s not a conservative piece preaching to a conservative choir in a conservative magazine. It’s a Vietnam protestor who understands what the term “peace” really means writing to an audience many of whom need to learn it. This is cause for hope.

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