Quakers, veterans, and Eisenhower--our real enemy

At least that's what the principal of a Cookeville, Tennessee high school says. The two groups visited the school and distributed materials about the war in Iraq, but these materials were apparently way too "anti-American" and "anti-military" for the people of Putnam County.

Principal Wayne Shank, who is alleged to have told the groups they could not return to the school (he now denies this), pointed out some of the objectionable material--wait for it--such as this quotation from former General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower: ''Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. Those who are cold and are not clothed.''

According to Veterans for Peace, Shank says the groups can return if their materials pass approval and they are in a setting in which a "balanced" presentation can be made. The school administration was never that worried about a balanced presentation when the Marines showed up.