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To: Ron who wrote (8992)	4/1/2004 5:57:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Re: Rather like the chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. I met one last night at a City Council meeting where the main discussion was of a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance. I happened to engage in conversation after the meeting with a Christian USAF veteran who opposed the measure. He assured me that homosexuality only became an issue in the last ten years. My comment that Alexander the Great and most of his cohort of ancient Greeks (as well as the Turk of that era) enjoyed cavorting with each other and boys did not seem to register with my debate opponent. Turning to the issue of the illegal invasion of Iraq, he assured me that it most certainly was not about oil, empire or Israel. Though he never could quite articulate why we were in Iraq, he felt compelled to tell me he'd like to go back. He insisted that John Kerry is an extreme left winger, a ridiculous notion to anyone who has studied Kerry's record. And when I brought up the miserable reaction and apparent stand-down of the FAA, NORAD and the USAF on 9/11/01, he skirted every technical argument I raised, and brushed off the miserable response of our nation's defense establishment as merely a bad day's confusion. Further engaging the man with a discusssion of Lt. Gen. Smedley Butler's famous dictum that "war is just a racket", the guy barely responded and immediately changed the subject. Needless to say, I was completely impressed by how doggedly determined this young man was to avoid letting the facts get in the way of his belief system. It was impressive. And scary. This sort of Christian soldier knows how to use weapons. But lacks the least bit of common sense or sense of decency as to why or when the application of military force is appropriate.