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To: The Wharf who wrote (8596)	8/8/2006 5:56:26 PM
From: rich evans	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

Religion is not rational. Afghan, Iraq and now Lebanon represent taking the lid off the septic tank. Although this fanatical teaching, training, arming etc was going on. It was like a rotton deck which a nice cover known as stability which was our foreign policy in the middle east for decades. IIS documents translated and ISG reports and Senate Intelligence Committee reports show strong circumstantial evidence that the terrorist were in Iraq, WMD plans were afoot, and Iran was very busy with their plans. 9/11 plus Bush's actions uncovered the whole mess. Ok Fine. Let Chaos reign instead of false stability. Let the Sunnis and Shias fight like they have been for centuries. Israel is better off fighting Hezbollah, Syria and Iran now then later after Iran has Nuclear Deterrant. And We are in Iraq at Syria back door and between Syria and Iran. We have Iran surrounded with Afghan, Iraq, Med, Turkey. Let Chaos reign. Much better then the false rotten stability. Rich

To: The Wharf who wrote (8596)	8/8/2006 11:38:42 PM
From: Solid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

You said, This so called war amount to a total waste of lives. It reminds Hezbollah and Iran and Syria that Israel is a force to be reckoned with. Indeed, even though some in the media might have us believe otherwise, due to restraint Israel has been using. Restraint in war is a very challenging premise… It reminds all people- regionally and around the globe- that regardless of whether they chose to plug in their thinking cap and acknowledge it or not, all the peace treaties and accords and cease fires and land give backs from Israel to Lebanon...were in vain because the radical Muslims refuse to accept a peace with Jews, period. Forces bent on the annihilation of Israel have had in the words of liberal 'crats, '...25 years to dig in and fortify positions to fight Israel...', time provided and aided by all those meetings and discussions ending in so called peace plans and accords, paid for with all of our business dollars collected in tax. Any group of humans who view themselves as ‘superior’ to the degree their actions demonstrate that it is their way or get off the planet, needs to be dealt with in no uncertain terms. Yet, uncertain terms are exactly the paths the world has followed over the last too many decades. We have made consciousness raising of our general populations to the extreme distrust of government, military and free enterprise an art form. All of the focus on political correctness, doctrines of fairness and narcissistic selfishness within our modern pop cultures have inadvertently led too many in the 'free world' to fall into a deep, deep sleep. Freedom, opportunity and abundance have afforded us the time to walk this path. Many in the rest of the world have not had such luxury. There dreams are different then many of ours and less reasonable. Look at the nightmares our media and our cities and our courts and our halls of government have dreamt over the last 40 some odd years. Churchill attempted to awaken England and Parliament in the 1930’s. Few if any listened. In 1939, few wanted to listen when Poland was invaded. Today I heard, on ole NPR, that somewhat liberal, still somewhat tax dollar supported news .org, Lebanese Muslims interviewed while protesting Israel and her ‘Nazi like actions against innocent civilians and children.’ Further statements by protestors, numbering in the hundreds in a community of over ten thousand, declared that Hezbollah are freedom fighters while ‘George Bush is the terrorist!’ Spokes persons for the general muslim community of over ten thousand said that many of them favor Hezbollah. The groups interviewed today were not in the mid east, they are in Dearborn, Michigan. Ain’t America wonderful! Or are we insane for being so lax about who we allow to become citizens? The lives lost will be more likely wasted if the status quo is allowed to continue allowing another mass of graves to accumulate on the Israeli side until the breaking point is reached again. Where is the resolve of the world community to stand together and no longer tolerate this immature behavior to continue from such barbaric factions within these states? It seems lost down those uncertain paths of, ‘Gee what ism do you think is in vogue today?’ Where is our collective backbone? Bush has been shouldering most of it and look at his poll ratings. Nations, and the world of man moves when disaster strikes, when cataclysm of war stares us in the face with the cold hard eyes of certain death. That remains a reality of our human history and present day. How many liberals welcome a soldiers protection when such harsh realities strike home? Since when was patriotism for a solid and good democracy a matter of left or right, of democrat or republican principles? Have you ever seen the movie, ‘The Melagrow Bean Field Wars’? Great part was when this old drunk who everyone thinks is pleasantly crazy, speaks with an angelic though regular appearing Mexican who only he can see. He is told that when no one understands and it appears all is lost victory for right and truth can be attained but at a cost. The cost is a great sacrifice, the sacrifice of human life. From our human perspective it is sad indeed to see the loss and human cost of war but without this, just as sadly, we tend to forget how precious it all is here. Even more tragically, without such sacrifice when directed toward freedom when freedom is threatened, we are not afforded the opportunity to live outside of tyranny. Perhaps the greatest tendency when free is to become complacent over time and to get lost in our littleness and pettiness. But alas, Life has a way of offering course corrections to us all, regardless of our attitudes, beliefs or opinions. The reality of it it all is that what does end is far to much productive business. Did Clinton really makes sense in his testimony to congress'...it depends what is is.' It is what it is in it's time and place. To go forward you need to travel the present road. It is folly to argue that business is lost now and that holds any meaning aside from its temporary effect on the economies of the region and world. The loss in business may be gigantic and long lasting or short lived and shallow in long term effect. Who can say? Look how Europe was rebuilt after WWII. What business was spurred from that chaos. Business goes forward and a hydrogen bomb goes off in a few more years after more productive business and then what of todays great deals? It is what it is and surely these present dealings hold promise along with great danger. Will the world join together or will history keep repeating itself? We are being asked, in part by the offspring of our own creative minds loosed in the world to mature and step up to the plate or bear the cost of our own technological magic selfishly used through irresponsibility. The other part doing the asking is reason within the human heart of those who have suffered in life and war and know first hand the wonder of cooperation and safety and freedom and law.