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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (374571)3/19/2003 7:07:22 PM
From: WaveSeeker   of 769670
 
Baldur, understand this. You are not and never will be an American. You will always be the sideline cynic, tucked away safely in your little northern cocoon. So, you can open up your can of rotten shark meat and secretly root that more Americans will die, as they did on September 11th. Whether or not you agree with our government, there are people right now who are willing to give their lives for their country in order to make the world a better place.

"Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II.

"And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, "Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us"? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul.

"And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are."

-Colin Powell
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