Here we have a rather lengthy and high-minded anti-war rant by the wife of Montana senator Max Baucus, Dem-Montana. She is a peacenik who appears even to think even Saddam is just misunderstood, and is so upset by the situation in Iraq (and what she perceives as the moral turpitude of the U.S.) that she can’t sleep at night:
“Is that so unusual – being for peace? I thought we all wanted peace,” Wanda Baucus, the senator’s wife of 20 years, told us yesterday. She said it was she, not her husband, who put up the sign.
“I want the people in Iraq to have peace – the people whose lives are in turmoil because of the war, the children, their mothers, the farmers, the grandmothers and even the camels that are out grazing,” said the 54-year-old Baucus, an anthropologist who has taught at Harvard as well as a painter who regularly visits the south of France.
While Isaac, her bichon frise, barked in the background, Baucus confided that she has been watching television with growing distress and having trouble sleeping – though she’s not worried about the prospect of terrorism in the United States. “I never think about it,” she said.
“I don’t think we have any business being in a preemptive war against Iraq,” she said. “Anytime you drop bombs, there are going to be a lot of innocent people hurt. A billion Muslims all over the world are in pain to see their brothers losing their homes and their families losing the stability of their civilization.”
She added: “Baghdad is where the beginning of civilization occurred, literally where the wheel was invented, where the very first city was built, where writing began, and it has a very deep and profoundly beautiful history – which we should never take lightly, no matter who the existing president is.”
Even if it’s Saddam? “I think he is very proud of the history of his country. I think it’s we Americans who don’t know the facts about what anthropologists call ‘the cradle of civilization.’ When we watch the bombing on television, we really don’t seem to understand or appreciate that some of these places are sacred. . . . I disagree with those who say that Saddam Hussein doesn’t think about this. He cares about these places and their people.”
She continued: “I don’t think American lives are threatened by him. There is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction and we have no right to make a preemptive strike on another country and try to assassinate its leader. We have no right legally or morally. We are way out of line.”
And thanks to the Salt Lake Tribune, here we have her in action in day-to-day life:
"The wife of Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was accused on Wednesday of hitting a woman in a dispute over mulch at a garden center, police said.
Baucus apparently was upset she did not get help loading the mulch into her car while the other woman was being assisted, a police spokesman said. Witnesses told police that Baucus put a bag of mulch behind the woman’s car, preventing her from leaving the store, and that after the exchanging words, allegedly struck the woman several times, police said."
She blocks someone’s car so the woman can’t leave, and then (according to other reports I’ve heard on t.v.) she throws mulch from another bag into this woman’s car, and then leans inside and punches this lady several times in the face and head!
All because the other lady got waited on before she did!
I love it when high-minded liberals, who are so intent on telling everyone else how to behave and who are so contemptuous of others who don’t share their pacifistic views and moral definition, show that they not only don’t practice what they preach but that their behavior can be much *worse * than that of those they so smugly condemn.
Hypocritical, much?
This only goes to show a favorite theory of mine which is that we (humans, that is) are all the same, only at different ends of the scale. It does seem however, that angry vehemence is much more in evidence from the left these days than from the right, as is evinced by the likes of Michael Moore, Streisand, Al Franken, et. al., just to name a few of the more well-known examples. They, however, feel their outrage is justified because they are on the side of righteousness…exactly the same way the other side feels about themselves.
