Toe the party line or shut up?

Submitted by Charlie Zimmerman (United States), Nov 12, 2002 at 14:18

"Adult supervision of the faculty and administrators at many American campuses" - why don't you come right out and say that if you don't buy the American government's rationale for the upcoming war, your rights to speak freely should be curtailed. That the US has an oil interest in Iraq is not exactly a novel or radical idea; it is even obvious from reading quotes from diplomats who have leaked UN Security Council nations' discussions on how to carve up the oil pie. It is also not a radical notion that Iraq currently poses no immediate danger, as stated by individuals such as Scott Ritter who are in a position to know...

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