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To: Brumar89 who wrote (364184)	12/26/2007 8:40:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574711

First, when the military kills it does so in the defense of the nation. This is not murder and not something that liberals should use to segregate the military from society as morally unclean The US military isn't currently defending the homeland.....its fighting wars in far off countries because the incumbent president believes its good for the country. I happen to disagree with the current president's thinking and judgement. First in the case of Iraq, you ignore the Congressional resolution authorizing the war. Hardly. Congress was the enabler after they got coerced into going along with Bush's nonsense. Besides what does that matter......Congress was controlled by the GOP and its ruling had no impact on my position at the time. Second, you must not think 911 was an attack on the US homeland because our troops involvement in Afghanistan is a direct response to that attack. Afghanistan was the base of the terror group which attacked us on 911. Yes, it is....so why are we in Iraq? Second, killing is not all the military does. That's right. It hands out chocolates to conquered children. Very cute! Very snarky. Your contempt of the military comes through loud and clear. My contempt is for the Pentagon white collar types who direct the military. Of course, the military does much more. For example, one little thing would be - the Army Corps of Engineers (dating from 1802) maintains the US navigable water ways. Also did you know the internet began as a Defense Dept communications project? I never said the military is a bad thing......there is a place for it in any society but not to the degree it dominates the American society. I don't think the world is a safe place but when the US spends as much on defense as the rest of the world does, I tend to believe the US is behaving excessively and a bit obsessively. The US military dominance is the reason most of the world is at peace now. A very unusual situation in world history. If this period passes, everyone will look back on this as the good old days. Horse shit! --------------------------------------------------------- 44 states now have Baby Moses laws (copied from legislation enacted first in the primitive red state of TX). geaniemorrison.com Maybe publicity of the Baby Moses law will help. However, I suspect it won't......I think these girls feel so much shame and fear, they just want 'the problem' to go away asap without further effort on their part. Well then we should be sure to not only make abortions available on demand to a young women with no parental approval or knowledge, we should also make them free to all too. I don't think money is the deciding factor in many of these troubled births. -------------------------------------------------------- In your view, isn't deploying them overseas at all an act of disrespect? I am not sure I know what you mean by this question.