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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (195462)	7/22/2004 9:30:52 PM
From: Road Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571204

Ten, On your note to Al, re: And I certainly won't support those who try to turn real sacrifices on the battlefield into nothing more than "issues" to be spun for their own political agendas. If you are talking to Al, JUST SHUT THE F-CK UP! "POLITICAL AGENDAS" my ass, think about people's real life kids, kids they love, many are going to die. I'm sick to death of you f-cking death hawks with your justifications. You love this sh-t. You love war. You love the action, the news. F-ck you. I hope 100 of you die for every one of our soldiers that die. I'm done here. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (195462)	7/23/2004 5:39:01 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571204

So you can speak on behalf of those "kids," most of whom probably support Bush anyway, but I have no right to speak unless they happen to be MY "kids"? No, you have a right to speak just fine...no...the point I was trying to make is that folks are more likely to mis-appreciate the gravity of bush's mistakes because they have no real first person consequences on them. It's the old draft argument...ask the country about it's support for a dubious war with a draft in effect and watch the predictable results. By the way, don't take much validation in the military's traditional support of republican "politics". The common soldier is little more than a high school kid with a gun, waiting for a paycheck every two weeks. Not exactly political acuity there if you know what I mean. And another thing...consider all these stop losses the pentagon is having to impose. I heard last week that they called up a 68 year old reservist. How about this? I want my kids to live in a safer world. And you think invading the second most holy site in islam while ignoring a festering israeli-palestinian conflict for four years is the way to make your future kids safer? Even if I ignore all the bogus reasons he gave us for doing it, it seems to me that one ought to bag a rattle snake instead of kicking it. All this means much more to me than the issue of who can ride a Harley inside a TV studio, or fall gracefully while snowboarding, or speak in public without getting tongue-tied. Obviously you think so as well, why may be why the "William Hung" humor was lost on you. Kerry may not be the perfect candidate in your eyes and even mine, but your william hung contrast is an irritating humorless exaggeration. So pardon me for not laughing...I have have more serious matters on my mind. Let's compare kerry to the alternative...george w bush...I must be crazy, but all i see is trouble and hopelessness and no end in sight, all thanks to gw and his foreign policies (and lack thereof) post 9/11. Assuming of course I am willing to overlook his fiscal drunkenness at home. I mean, who cares about that when we are heading straight for a clash of civilizations that is likely to last my lifetime and that of my kids? So, yes, i blame bush and the men and women with which he has chosen to surround himself. And that is why I dislike him. Not because he is flat on TV or he can't speak very well or he is a christian who wears his religion on his sleeve in a nation where that and politics ought to be separate matters. Those observable attributes seem to betray more important shortcomings, but they are not the final issue. To say so as you so often do is an insulting trivialization and the projection of a stupid man, and you don't otherwise seem stupid to me...so quit posts that make you seem so. Al