Strangely enough, if you read the quotes that they've picked for these cards, they're all rather flattering to the anti-war camp. Take, for example:
Susan Sarandon
Cloaked in patriotism and our doctrine of spreading democracy throughout the world, our fundamentalism is business, the unfettered spread of our economic interests throughout the globe. Our resistence to this war should be the resistence to profit at the cost of human life"
This hardly sounds like the "Pro-Saddam" ranting that these are being sold as- rather some well reasoned and erudite anti-war commentry. If I was making a similar set of cards about pro-war supports, personally I would have chosen the least logical, least well written, least convincing, most absurd statements. After all, it is supposed to be propaganda. Which raises some interesting questions-
Are the opposing sides so far apart that they can't even find the illogical arguments worthy of ridicule amongst their opposition's remarks? Is there such a lack of common ground that they can't work out which statements might have more worth than others?
Or are the two sides so opposed that even the opposition's best argument and erudite statements are worthy of ridicule? |
