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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: zonder who wrote (12362)4/11/2003 3:58:43 PM
From: Sojourner Smith  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614
 
When hear Bush speak it reminds me of the Bob and Ray routine:
The ..... Slowest ..... talker ...... in.....the .....
world....

I wish I could have written a speech for him on Iraqi radio.
Or someone could have done a better job.



To: zonder who wrote (12362)4/11/2003 4:10:45 PM
From: MulhollandDrive  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21614
 
>>Brilliant. I can't wait to live the next fifty years or so<<

you sound disheartened...i feel badly for you....i am optimistic....i have much less apprehension today about the next 50 years today than i did a year ago.

your arguments against the war are most certainly much more apropo to saddam's regime than to the u.s.

his attack against kuwait and his subsequent use of proxies to engage war was certainly a calamitous folly for him and his allies.

but good for freeing the the people of iraq...the proverbial silver lining.

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War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill


and not to put too fine a point on it..

Let him who desires peace prepare for war."
- Vegetius