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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1821)	10/8/2001 3:06:22 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

While the person inside of me agrees with what you've just said, my mind is telling me something else. I believe there are times in life where you have to fight on a down and dirty level. I hate the idea of slaughtering people to send a message to the world. But I believe thats what needs to be done. We're just expressing two different means to an end. I don't like the idea of either one to be honest but if we're going to make a mistake I would like to see us make it by going too far. I think we have already gone too weak in the past

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1821)	10/8/2001 3:18:14 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Respond to of 14610

But I also believe that if we sink to the mentality of indiscriminate killing that is being employed by OBL and the Taliban, that they will have won the war by killing the values that make the U.S. the great country that it is. Last Thursday, as I drove to work, they played some excerpts on the radio from Wednesday night's episode of West Wing. I had missed it, am still trying to get my hands on a tape of it. One of the excerpts they played (I am paraphrasing here, this is the gist of it from what I remember) was the story of someone who, as a child, had a neighbor who would come and play cards with his father. The neighbor was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. One day the neighbor told the story of something that happened in one of those camps. He had come upon one of the other prisoners who was kneeling down and praying. He asked the man what he was doing. The man replied, "I am thanking God." Looking at the evil all around them in the camp, the man asked, "What could you possibly have to thank God for?" He responded, "I am thanking Him for not making me like them." When this is over, my hope is that we too will still have that to be thankful for.