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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Angler who wrote (8172)	12/4/2001 6:50:31 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Anyway, we have folks like yourself ready to take up causes even using something (who would have dreamed of) called the Internet. But, perhaps, what you are referring to (the unlearned lesson) is the continued presence of despots like Saddam and the world's usual reticence in dealing with them in a timely fashion? There are so many unlearned lessons it's hard to count them all. Irish Protestants and Catholics; how long have the Israeli's and the Palestinians been going tit for tat. The US, among others, continue to flood the third world with arms. How many more times before we learn what happens? The UN cites Mexico with human rights violations, i.e., the use of torture throughout the government; what's the Admin's position? We need to get those trucks through. Silent majority was an interesting phrase. If they were so silent, how did they know it was a majority? A carefully selected phrase; humans feel comfortable in believing that they are in the majority, ever if they aren't. We didn't know or acknowledge that he was putting the Jews into death camps until wars end. It seems like we knew, but couldn't fathom it. On the other hand maybe we really didn't much care. As callous as that may sound, there wasn't much of an outcry over Somalia or Rwanda as I recall. I think the most commonly heard sentence was It's not in our national interest. Anyway, we have folks like yourself ready to take up causes even using something... To have a successfull cause one has to have slogans. There also seems to be a requirement that said slogans be phrases [incomplete sentences preferably] that do not exceed four words in length. I don't like generating slogans. About the only thing humorous about politics is listening to the politicians pop out a new slogan and then watching the followers parroting the phrases over and over. jttmab