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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (92592)1/5/2005 4:02:44 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
That "Bring it on!" machismo was another thing that should have come to mind when he was asked about mistakes. Or that premature "Mission accomplished!" statement. Or that his people orchestrated the show on the carrier, lied about it (blaming the sailors, whom were ordered to hang the banner) before finally admitting the truth on Page 10.

This has very little to do with being a Republican or Democrat - I'm actually a conservative ex-Navy guy and patriot: I don't think you should spend money you don't have, I don't want a large and powerful central government controlling every aspect of daily life at the State level, and I don't want a reduction of domestic defense budgets to finance a war for buddies of the President and Vice-President to profit from (which will ultimately make America less economically independent anyway and perpetuate our dependence on oil). If you get warnings (like in 1973, and again 1979) it is not conservative to ignore them and increase your dependency from 30% to over 60% on the same commodity.

I've always been a social liberal in the George Washington sense, though:

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government.
George Washington
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