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Buffalonian Pat Donovan sent this comment on the inability of the Buffalo Common Council to discuss a peace resolution (Buffalo Goons, and Scoundrels and Liars at the Buffalo Common Council, both 6 March 2003)
March 12, 2003
Dear Editor,
I am dismayed at the total lack of education about current affairs demonstrated by so many members of the Common Council as indicated in their decision to table a vote against war with Iraq.
There seems to be some assumption that to be against the war is to be against those forced to fight it, when actually one reason for the protest is that it will kill, maim, gas and otherwise injure many thousands of our troops. I am related to some of them. I know others. I bless them for their courage and military ability and their willingness to "defend" the U.S. even though their commander-in-chief is a dry-drunk zealot who is leading them into a horror.
This war, it is generally agreed, is likely to provoke more terrorism, poison the air and water of a massive region, kill tens of thousands of Iraquis, virtually destroy our economy and leave us holding the bag for the next decade, while hated and distrusted even more than we are now.
If the common councilors cannot read a paper, a magazine, an editorial or think their way through the jingoism and outright lies this administration has been proven to have told us, they are politically illiterate. To refuse to discuss such an issue at the request of constituents suggests an inability to discuss it at all. That would not surprise me given the general intellectual quality of many of the council members, which is far below that of most of their constituents, including the average guy in the street.
And if Rosemary LoTempio, who says she is taking her advice from the Pentagon, thinks that that body and its leaders, previous and current, unilaterally support this war, then she is a very dull pencil indeed and should resign her seat immediately as a public service.
Pat Donovan
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