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To: smoothsailing
Only lunatics like war. Sometimes, however, the alternative to war is even more abhorrent.
4 posted on 08/24/2005 11:11:10 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: clee1

Thank you for saying that.


6 posted on 08/24/2005 11:13:13 PM PDT by battlegearboat
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To: clee1
Each time he removed a cross, protesters replaced it, he said.

I hate those people.

7 posted on 08/24/2005 11:13:57 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: clee1
Agreed. I like John Stuart Mill's take on it:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself" -- John Stuart Mill

13 posted on 08/24/2005 11:20:29 PM PDT by MilesVeritatis (Beware the fury of a patient US military)
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To: clee1
Pro-war is a poor way to represent folks who honor the sacrifices of our military and are offended by those who don't.

The article is fair in all other regards and it's on today's front page of the Washington Times.

37 posted on 08/24/2005 11:51:23 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: clee1
Only lunatics like war. Sometimes, however, the alternative to war is even more abhorrent.

And when you ask a lefty what they would have done to rid the world of a tyrant who has butchered more than 600,000 of his people, they start yelling "Bush lied." Idiots.

78 posted on 08/25/2005 5:41:51 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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