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Helen Thomas, you know her, the senior citizen journalist who has been asking relevant questions of Presidents since W was in diapers, recently asked W a question he had no answer to "Why did you invade Iraq, Mr. President? Which he really had no answer for. She recently wrote a syndicated newspaper article "Where are all the leaders of faith" comparing the anti-Vietnam movement leaders many of them religious leaders as well, to the invisibility of the clergy in the opposition to the mess in Iraq. She says most of the clergy today are in the same boat as the news media and most members of Congress, "They are victims of post 9/11 syndrome that equates any criticism of U.S. policy with lack of patriotism". What she fails to point out about this equation is it was created by karl Rove and the President's advisors post 9/11 as a very effective political exploitation even extortion tool to allow their abuse of Presidential power................. Helen talks about one courageous religious leader, who passed away last month Rev. William Sloane Coffin. He was a Presbyterian minister, chaplin at Yale University and pastor at Riverside Church in New York. He came from money, went to Ivy League schools, served in WWII and even worked for the CIA. Not your typical background for a leader in liberal causes. He marched with Martin in the south in the 60s for equal rights, and was a leader of the anti-Vietnam war movement. In one of his last writings he described the war in Iraq "The war against Iraq is as disasterous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of it's wisdom, purpose, and motives, the worst war in American history. Our military men and women were not called to defend America, but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for America , but rather to kill for their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters?"..............Why can't we have one Democratic leader capable of defining patriotism this way?