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To: Jamey who wrote (169970)	8/26/2005 9:41:43 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

We've faced such tactics before, with Japanese kamikazis. They played a large part in our decision to drop the atom bombs, and we probably picked the course that would cause the least death by doing so. I read a book by the Japanese officer who organized the kamikazis, and he had an entire population of millions ready to kill themselves protecting the homeland. en.wikipedia.org In Vietnam, we had a very few Buhddist monks who would sit, douse themselves with gasoline, and then burn themselves to death in protest. They'd sit there and burn to death, no screaming, no flailing about - they'd just sit there until they died and fell over. As an American, I can't understand how they could do that, but I respected their sacrifice and the inner strength it must have taken to do it. It made a deep impression on me. geocities.com Can you picture Pat Robertson doing anything like that? Or Ralph Reed? Or George W. Bush?