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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dvdw© who wrote (343955)	1/16/2003 9:25:23 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"free" ? Who said anything about free anything? hence it's/ our soldiers are there for a reason you missed Washington's point -- it isn't "our" soldiers... they work exclusively for the Executive Branch. That's Geo Washington's reason for restraint, exactly what's happening now, self-dealing insiders manipulating the military around the world, with large and obvious conflicts of interest. The rest of your rhetoric about "subvert, credible, relativism, moods" etc. are nothing of substance. You could just as easily say the mercenaries now have "moods". The military doesn't tolerate "moods", it is much better organized and dependable than you realize, and has proven so in every conflict we've had, both volunteer and drafted. Doesn't wash.

To: dvdw© who wrote (343955)	1/16/2003 9:30:43 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

"... every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency" -- Geo Washington That's anything but "free". That's an obligation to your country, sir.