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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (4606)	12/20/2003 9:51:33 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

You're take on history is a joke.

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (4606)	12/21/2003 12:03:44 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<and pick on people that brought us the victory in the war against Communism>>> That has to be just about the silliest comment I've seen in a very long time. You'd have a hard time finding any free nation, including the US, that does not have a communist party. Since rounding up communists inside the US and blowing their heads off is not an option, bombing some third world country into the stone age for the benefit of war profiteers is hardly an acceptable alternative. "Communism" during the cold war was never more than a word intended to frighten idiots. The average idiot frightened by the word doesn't have a clue what the word even means. The basic philosophy is that everyone in a society should work at what they do best, and that everyone in that society should have an equal share in the fruits of their common labor. Perhaps not a practical philosophy, but it's difficult to view the basic principal as "evil" on any kind of moral basis. Taxing the middle class to provide comfort to those on welfare is essentially a communist practice, with the exception there is no expectation set on those receiving the benefits to contribute to the society supporting them. The cold war was an arms race where the sole purpose was nations gutting their respective populations to build weapons that had no useful purpose whatsoever. The excuse was to fight communism, which was never a threat in the first place, in order to con suckers into turning their pay checks over to war profiteers such as Perle. In that respect Perle was certainly one of the few winners in a "war" everyone else lost, but calling him a hero is hardly descriptive. Perle is a traitor who should have been placed in front of a firing squad a very long time ago. The world is a poorer place as the result of his continued existence.