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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312840)	11/28/2006 2:46:30 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573694

Oh I get it all right. You think people are all for "wars of choice" when they don't have to fight them. Well, I can argue that people are all for higher taxes when they themselves don't have to pay them. The problem is bigger than deterrent. You seem determined to talk about generalities, and avoid the topic. That seems to be the direction you take when you don't have a base for argument. You have done it here again. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312840)	11/28/2006 3:04:51 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573694

Here you go...another option for you. Al ================================================== Limbaugh on Middle East: "Fine, just blow the place up" On the November 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to claims made by King Abdullah II of Jordan on the November 26 edition of ABC's This Week that "we could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands," Rush Limbaugh said: "[W]ell, let's just have them. Let's just have the civil wars ... because I'm just fed up with this." Limbaugh then asserted: "Fine, just blow the place up. Just let these natural forces take place over there instead of trying to stop them." Additionally, Limbaugh claimed: "[E]verbody comes to us. ... So we go and try to fix it and our own people, Democrats and the left in our country do their best to sabotage our efforts, and then we get blamed for trying to clean up the messes that these people start."

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (312840)	11/28/2006 3:35:09 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573694

re: You think people are all for "wars of choice" when they don't have to fight them. Well, I can argue that people are all for higher taxes when they themselves don't have to pay them... No need to tell me that some people are better able to pay taxes than others, or that paying taxes has never been voluntary, because the point is that it doesn't make any sense to force people to do something just to make them think the way you do. 1. It's a valid point that taxes have never been voluntary. You think they should be? 2. They don't have to "think the way we do". They can be as hawkish as they want. They just have to take the chance that they will have to participate... the citizen soldier thing. Are you saying no one in their right mind would be a hawk if they thought they might die? Or do you think they make a clearer decision if there is no possibility that they personally will have to fight (or pay war taxes for that matter)?