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To: nihil who wrote (29056)	1/24/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

War, an Organic Response or Churchill was a Madman War, the collective application of force. Some men are made for war. War is Reason Gone mad Three cheers for the Light Brigade Owooooooooo

To: nihil who wrote (29056)	1/25/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: Aaron Cooperband	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Nihil - Re: "People like you, Terrence, would have by inaction let the Nazis occupy Europe, kill all the...." Very well put. I agree wholeheartedly. Aaron

To: nihil who wrote (29056)	1/25/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Nihil: I am not a pacifist. Hitler didn't want war with America, at least not until he was ready, but we kept inciting him because we wanted to get into the fray, and rightly so. He even had a standing order to his Naval forces NOT to fire on any American ship. Any statist society is an enemy of freedom. We should be at war with them even if we do not "declare" war. I am not a "skinflint"! LOL I just don't like having what I create from my own mind and energies taken away from me with the threat of a gun. That is as immoral and against the rights of the individual as a Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. FDR was the closest thing to a dictator that America ever came. Too close. One of my uncles was a Marine in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese in the Pacific; he later became a Colonel serving in the Pentagon. My father was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy during WWII and later served in Korea and Vietnam as well. My stepfather, a Navy Chief in WWII, grew up in the same Depression you did and used to think FDR was a god, but finally came to the realization many years later how much harm FDR actually did to America. Roosevelt's policies did not end the Great Depression. WWII did. FT