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E-Mail from a soldier to Andrew Sullivan (Great!!!)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_10_17_dish_archive.html#109821799186040878 ^

Posted on 10/19/2004 1:59:44 PM PDT by hipaatwo

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To: hipaatwo
Great post!

As for Anne-drew S. He is a woman, so he thinks like a woman. He reserves the right to change his mind, as that is a woman's prerogative.

21 posted on 10/19/2004 2:17:58 PM PDT by keithtoo (GOP: Faith , Family, Freedom. DemonRats: Traitors, Haters and Vacillators)
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To: mudblood

I'm very surprised that Andrew Sullivan posted this e-mail. Perhaps he took some of it to heart.


22 posted on 10/19/2004 2:18:52 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: hipaatwo

Kerry keeps attacking President Bush for the 30% mistakes, but the American people are seeing the 70% victory in Iraq. That's why Kerry will lose this election. If he had JUST ONCE in the debates acknowledged any sense of what this soldier says, he might have had a chance. But he couldn't. Not because he doesn't get it; he does. But he doesn't think WE get it.


23 posted on 10/19/2004 2:19:01 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Proud to be a Reagan Alumna!)
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To: hipaatwo

Wow. His 2 + 2 example is about the best and clearest explanation I have seen of the problems with a lot of the second guessing.


24 posted on 10/19/2004 2:20:14 PM PDT by Freemyland
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To: microgood

Give Sullivan credit where due. He is not a Bush-hater or a Dem shill, but the problems in post war Iraq (plus his gay white whale) have turned him into a Kerry apologist. That's why this letter is so perfect for him.


25 posted on 10/19/2004 2:22:00 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: hipaatwo

AMEN - Do something, even if wrong, and keep on doing something - that the way we learn and not to repeat mistakes!!!


26 posted on 10/19/2004 2:25:22 PM PDT by RAY (They that do right are all heroes!)
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To: hipaatwo

HOLY COW THAT IS AWESOME.


27 posted on 10/19/2004 2:25:41 PM PDT by WOSG (George W Bush / Dick Cheney - Right for our Times!)
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To: Callahan

Indeed.
I have read Mr. Sullivan on and off, and one thing sticks with me - he's a guy who thinks. Seriously. It is rare for someone who posts their opinions in public to approach their own opinions critically. Sure, he doesn't do it every day. Sure, he's wrong. But he's one of the very few public personalities who I know will examine himself and his conclusions - and who will, no matter the embarassment, admit mistakes.

If a man is a thinking man, he looks at himself often and critically. If a man has guts, he can admit he's been wrong.

I hold hope that Mr. Sullivan gets a spark from this letter and starts re-evaluating his positions.


28 posted on 10/19/2004 2:30:41 PM PDT by Republicanus_Tyrannus
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To: hipaatwo
"But the job has to get done anyway. And to get this kind of job done boldness is essential. A leader who never blunders, but who doesn't take the fight to the enemy is worthless. A leader who sets about to win - win ugly if needs be - is priceless....

One thing the Marine Corps taught me is that a 70% solution acted on immediately and violently is better than a perfect solution acted on later. My experience has proven this true time and again. The sad fact is however, that a 70% solution is a 30% mistake. And those mistakes can be hard to take. In WWII for example, 700 soldiers drowned in a training accident in preparation for D-Day (that is about how many combat deaths we've experienced so far in Iraq).


Priceless. Does the soldier ever name himself? I LOVE this guy.
29 posted on 10/19/2004 2:31:39 PM PDT by N. Beaujon (sera@ix.netcom.com)
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To: Republicanus_Tyrannus

Never happen. I used to donate to Sullivan's blog. When W expressed support for the marriage amendment his queer gene took over. W hasn't done anything right since. Sullivan has gone the Brock route.


30 posted on 10/19/2004 2:33:13 PM PDT by IGOTMINE (It is ALL THE WAY ON!)
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To: hipaatwo

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.

-Teddy Roosevelt
April 23, 1910

31 posted on 10/19/2004 2:33:26 PM PDT by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: hipaatwo; hilaryrhymeswithrich
Ping!

Very nice. The support of the military was never in doubt, but I always wondered why considering, like this soldier says, that they are the ones suffering for the Presidents actions. It was a very insightful email, answered a question for me, and further shows just what outstanding men and women make up our military.

32 posted on 10/19/2004 2:34:01 PM PDT by Tatze (I will vote for John Kerry before I vote against him!)
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To: Republicanus_Tyrannus

Sullivan is thinker -- except where homosexuality is concerned. Then the mind stops. Unfortunately ever since the President came out for the Marriage Amendment this election has been about one issue and one issue only for Sullivan. All his tortured explanations of why Kerry would be just as good for the war on terror are purely transparent rationalizations. He's supporting Kerry because he knows that Kerry won't lift a finger to stop court-imposed "gay marriage," period. It's sad to see a smart man so tied in knots.


33 posted on 10/19/2004 2:35:04 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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It looks like Patton taught the military well.

If I wasn't in pretty good shape, this would have given me a heart attack. This was a letter from a young Marine, not a soldier. As fine an Army General as Patton was, Marines didn't need to learn a damn thing from him. We had then and have now our own heroes and combat leaders.

Can't help the rather visceral reaction...its sort of in the blood.

34 posted on 10/19/2004 2:37:11 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: hipaatwo
Certainly a Best of the Web letter. Even people that support the President and the military action can learn from this.
35 posted on 10/19/2004 2:37:13 PM PDT by BallyBill (NAACP Rock 4 Votes..err Crack Rocks that is!!)
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To: N. Beaujon

No, he didn't post the name.


36 posted on 10/19/2004 2:37:33 PM PDT by hipaatwo
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To: hipaatwo

Bump.


37 posted on 10/19/2004 2:39:20 PM PDT by cgk (Teresa Heinz Kerry: ``The Democratic machine in this country is putrid.'')
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To: Southern Federalist

For Sullivan the equation is thus:

Bush's profligate spending + trouble in post-war Iraq + Bush support for FMA = middling support for Kerry despite innumerable faults.

He's one of the most tortured guys out there, that's for sure.


38 posted on 10/19/2004 2:40:20 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: Callahan

That is just the impression I have gotten since Bush proposes that marriage amendment. The cheap shots he has taken at Bush and convincing himself that Bush could do a better job with lame logic or saying Kerry slam dunked the debates because a CNN poll says so shows he is clearly angry at Bush even if he does not hate him outright.


39 posted on 10/19/2004 2:43:43 PM PDT by microgood
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To: BallyBill
Certainly a Best of the Web letter.

I'm not sure what that is, but I think I agree. You sift through heaps of dull verbage on the web, then you come across something as crisply argued as this letter, and it stands out.

40 posted on 10/19/2004 2:46:07 PM PDT by Yardstick
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