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To: lorne who wrote (18909)	1/19/2003 2:07:17 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I vigorously supported the Falklands War as i was deeply aware it was a pathetic sword swinging display by an evil Military Junta trying to keep themselves propped up by creating a "patriotism mania" via "We will win back the Maldives that were stolen from us". And their great enemy, the Falklanders, LOL! If ever there was a just war it was Britain coming to the Falklands. I do not allow who is in office to sway what i support or don't support, and being that at that that i was firmly anti-Thatcher, my vigorous support of the Falklands war proves that, and i was dismayed at all the lefties non ability to support the Falklands War simply because they had an anti-Thatcher agenda. My politics are quicksilver, and issue oriented and not political party oriented. And, also, as i was deeply knowing of Grenada. Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was a genial good fellow that liked to ride the bus with everybody, i will never forget hearing him on a radio show saying 'i think there has been to much pushin and shovin on the buses. Let us try to be more polite" He was RUTHLESSLY assassinated in a Cuban orchestrated coup that was a coup by a bunch of Castroite wienies within a country that didn't give a damn about Castro and Marxism(just as i didn't--it is just another totalitarian manifestation<of which there are many manifestations>) I, who am of the left, more often than not, was ashamed of all the self-serving aging hippies using that as a show of American bullies on the loose. And ASHAMED that as with the Falklands, they didn't have a clue of the facts and were nothing "knee-jerking" puppets to their agenda--and had zero empathy for the falklanders or Grenadians.Max

To: lorne who wrote (18909)	1/19/2003 2:47:05 AM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

<In the war on terror, I fear the clock has stopped.> a war against Iraq will significantly strengthen terrorism and build an even greater base for support of terrorism. This will solve nothing and make matters worse. The vast moderate Muslim population will get more and more radicalized as they are beginning to suspect our actions be a move to destroy anything Muslim. The single most dedicated group to this war be the Christian Right that think they are acting out the "Last Days". Their underlying scenario be the Book of Revelations, which is but a treatise of deranged hate written by some 'prophet' that was displaying "religious" verbiage in its most irrational and dangerous form and can match easily with the most irrational blood-curdling sections of the Koran. I am sensing history's quite insane aspects of what we call religion are becoming Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. I, am not an atheist as Ayn Rand was; but i was an an atheist until age 19, but the mystic i became i keep out worldly affairs, because for me the "so-called" Supreme is not of this world nor has anything to do with this world. We are within Chaos, and are only tool to fight chaos is rationality,imo.. Max