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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (197068)10/28/2001 4:54:31 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 

Because of my beliefs, I could never endorse any strategy that involves the murder of people anywhere, anytime. Bring them to justice by all
means before the world in the Hague, but let us not try to solve the problem of misery by inflicting more misery. That is my belief, and it should
be the belief of anyone who calls themselves a religious person. One cannot go to Church on Sunday and come home and support War; the two
are mutually exclusive by definition, and yet I always hear people with "love of God" calling for war. That is laughable and a perversion of
everything right and just.

What does bring them to justice mean? They will not recognize "our" justice. They will not come peaceably and be tried for "their" murders. If you have no plans for bringing them to justice your words are hollow.

What is murder? (It's not killing. If one kills to protect their own is it murder?) It's what the terrorists did and continue to do. What is war? It's a political act, a continuation of political relations by other means, but it is not murder even though killing is a likely part.

I will put your idea of flooding Afghanistan with food in the same spot with nuclear weapons for the time being. They both need a lot of work before they will seem remotely practical or efficient in reaching the goal of rooting out the terrorists of OBL and his affiliates.

BTW I can assure you that many (if not most) who go to church can support war. (The military is not exclusively atheist;). Bush would not have support otherwise.
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