Brainless Peaceniks on Parade in Western Massachusetts

Some choice quotes from the “Skip School for Saddam” rally:

Ann Ferguson of the Philosophy Department said that she's been involved in political activism since the 1960s.
"I'm an old timer," Ferguson said. "We just completed 45 years of successfully avoiding war with the U.S.S.R. Why can't we do that now?"

"What they call shock and awe, I call terrorism," Sivan said of the Bush administration's military tactics

A student asked Pellet what the Iraqi people seemed to think of their leader, Saddam Hussein. Pellet said that according to the Iraqi people, he [Hussein] is not the "demonized creature" we hear about.
"The Iraqi people want a leader who stands up to the U.S.," Pellet said.

But there was one kindred soul here in the Happy Valley:

Several people in the center of Amherst said they didn't agree with the protestors' views.
"I think it [the protest] is absolutely ridiculous," said UMass graduate student Jeremy Caron. "There are no Iraqis at any of these protests because even they think he [Hussein] should go."