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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (554485)	3/22/2004 10:53:45 AM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Respond to of 769670

"I very early thought it would be best to effect a peace through the medium of war" could very well have been said by President Bush. "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli", etc. KM

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (554485)	3/22/2004 8:08:35 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas Paine would have supported President Bush today, how these words ring true even today... "Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What difference is it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? There are persons, too, who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy, if he succeeds, will be merciful. It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; and we ought to guard equally against both." - - Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 ushistory.org GZ