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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (196550)	8/10/2006 11:19:37 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A person of principle stands up for what they believe in. If you believe in killing innocent people, secretly arresting people and hiding them without any regard for human rights and torturing people while lying to the American people who have put their faith in you as their leader, then so be it. I believe in freedom, human rights and the rule of law -- in other words, democracy. I do not believe in those things that kill democracy -- the cowardice of torture, the cowardice of killing innocent women and children to make a political statement, the cowardice of lying to the American people and secretly and illegally spying on the American people. Keep your faith with these cowards if you like -- they are not my kind of people.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (196550)	8/10/2006 12:19:35 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There CERTAINLY no honor dying at the hands of some Jihadist religious fanatic merely because you're too pacifistic to oppose and confront them. Appeasers/apologist like GST will never grasp the threat until they're at 30,000ft over the Atlantic and one of their fellow passengers jumps up with a hearty "Allaho-Akbar!" and terminates the flight prematurely. There's a growing isolationist movement in the US that may be the harbinger of the next world wide conflict. The same isolationist sentiments were being expressed before direct US involvement in WW1 and WW2. Any guess on the amount of humanitarian suffering that might not have occurred had the US gotten directly involved in WW2 in 1941 when FDR could see what was happening (same year as lend lease).