Not sure how or why I was included in your comments. Diane Benson is proud of her son’s service and humbled by his sacrifice. She is also angry at the treatment of veterans as I think many Americans are.

My comment had to do with her stance on the war. She has not shown herself to be anti-war, and in fact, she does not seem to know very much about the terrorism issue in general. When Scott asked her about the “War on Terror” she went all around the question and “answered” with a longwinded, disconnected gibberish.

Ms. Benson lost the last election with over 40% of the vote to Don Young’s 56%, but even then, it was not because she was a strong candidate; it was because Don Young has become such a HATED figure in corrupt national politics, and Alaskans will be glad to be rid of him. He has spent over a million dollars in legal fees to keep ahead of FBI investigations into his bad dealings. Many people voted for her as an alternative to rid AK of the obnxious curse of Don Young.

She will not win in this coming election cycle, because there are other more experienced and better known and better liked candidates who have either announced or who are expected to do so. She is a democrat in the squirrly democrat fashion. She is very much social program oriented. She is NOT anti-war! And, if by some strange reason she attains to office, she will vote with the pack of democrats who are not anti-war either.

I know and understand how difficult the issues of U.S. National Defense and Foreign Policy are for so many people, but keep in mind, most everyone has a certain perspective that manifests itself in different ways. For some it is love of country, others, revenge, and for some, economic incentives or in a word, MONEY. Justice and Peace should be the two pronged-spear that a people can and should unite under. To do otherwise is unacceptable in my view, and in order for the human race as a whole to survive long into the future it must EMBRACE THESE TWO IDEALS, JUSTICE AND PEACE……………………….

It’s has nothing to do with “walking in” your shoes. One only has to read your post to understand that you carry weight, however justified it may be. It has to do with perpetual and mutual hatred and the wish for the annihilation of others and the complete lack of justice which is always the result.

Thus, I’ll “pontificate” against hate as often as I see fit, because such hatred manifests itself in myriad ways — many of which inevitably come back and make the world a worse place to live in.

She is not a strong candidate for election in Alaska, even though AK has a jerk of a US Representative, Don Young. A lot of us hate Young, but Benson cannot beat him in AK because she does not have a national grasp on issues other than the war. She has minor local following because she is an Alaskan Native. Most of all, she can never seem to say outright that she is anti-war.

You are lucky you have not lost any members of your family, nor your country, as I have to this very same illegal and obscene invasion. When you have, then come back and lecture me about love, forgiveness and other such trite feelings.

In the meantime, I want them all to suffer. I want them all to feel what they have done to us and I want them to ressurect all the dead and rebuild the country itself from the pile of rubble they have turned it into for the sake of stealing the oil and helping israel to feel free to continue its murderous occupation and usurpation of what is left of palestine and the cleansing of its people from its land and its heritage.

Walk a mile in my shoes and then I will listen to you.