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Reap the whirlwind
Baltimore Sun ^ | November 4, 2001 | uncredited

Posted on 11/05/2001 6:01:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It is an image that is so well-known as to approach cliche - refugees, belongings in bundles on their heads, children dressed in tatters clinging to their sides, fleeing the fighting or the famine or the chaos. The setting can be the mountains of Afghanistan, the bush of Africa or the paved roads of Kosovo.


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We're going to have to do some nation building.
1 posted on 11/05/2001 6:01:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
When you have a bunch of illiterate, religious fanatics blindly calling for your blood, you get involved.
2 posted on 11/05/2001 6:09:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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When you have a bunch of illiterate, religious fanatics blindly calling for your blood, you get involved.

Well said....it kinda focuses the mind.

3 posted on 11/05/2001 6:10:42 AM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
It makes it crystal clear. We have to supplant the brutal opportunists who prey on them and give them a chance for a life.
4 posted on 11/05/2001 6:15:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT: Confronting the source essential to winning the war

In Pakistan, Christians strangers in their own land

5 posted on 11/05/2001 6:34:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Americans aren't the aggressors and preparing people for freedom is not tyrannical. I expect a lot of people will welcome our attention to their plight.

We won't hear that from the LIBERAL media but they swim in LIBERAL schools darting between anti-American rethoric and pro-terrorist news coverage.

6 posted on 11/05/2001 6:52:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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