I'll nominate Josh Howard...
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Wed, March 19, 2003
Howard opposes war in Iraq
JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
Josh Howard, Wake Forest's All-America basketball player, opposes an American attack on Iraq.
Howard expressed his opinion yesterday when a Winston-Salem Journal reporter asked if he was concerned about war disrupting the NCAA Tournament.
"It's crazy, man," Howard said. "I think personally it's Bush, man ... He's doing too much, man. He's mad because they about killed his daddy - what, about five years ago, six years ago? After what happened in 9/11, I felt like - I was telling the guys - like it was at a club, like somebody stole (from) him. He turned around, the first person he seen, he's ready to fight. Basically that's what he's doing, because Saddam had been, like, quiet for a while, and he was over there looking for bin Laden. Now he can't find bin Laden, he's running to Saddam. Now he's ready to kick him out of Iraq. I mean, it's crazy, man.
"Then another thing I think it is, it's all over oil. That's why gas is going up. He's mad because he can't just run all that, too. That's how I feel. I don't think we should go to war, but he's the president."
Howard confirmed that he isn't a Bush fan.
"Not really," he said. "It was fine when Bill Clinton was in the office. I mean, we didn't have no problems or experiences with everybody. It's just crazy. It's just wild, things can change that fast within what - four years? Five years?"
Howard, who attended Hargrave Military Academy before enrolling at Wake Forest, said that the war against Iraq seems inevitable.
"I just wish everything would just hurry up and end, so we can just go on with our lives," Howard said. "I'm the type of person, I hate violence. I just want everything to be happy and fine."
- Lenox Rawlings
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