Published on Friday, September 26, 2003 by the Roanoke Times (Virginia)
Editorial
Iraq is a test the U.S. cannot afford to fail. The real patriots are the Americans protesting the inadequacies of the Bush administration's politically skewed policies.
Any debate over the Bush administration's Iraq policies should rest upon this foundation:
Success is likely to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and possibly hundreds more U.S. lives, but failure would cost far more.
Failure would mean far greater instability, violence and hardship in Iraq. Failure would open the door to power for radical, oppressive, anti-American groups. Failure could put the resources of an oil-rich and regionally influential nation in the hands of the very terrorists and religious zealots America is fighting to suppress.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0926-10.htm Finally, it seems our dissent is being recognized for what it is: standing up and dissenting because we love, not hate, the US.