Posted on 09/11/2006 8:35:59 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
Thanks for the info. I'll track it down. Thanks for the offer though!
I'm sure it can. Like I said, I tend to be attracted to the dark hair/eyes etc. Maybe I don't see enough of them. Or they only pick their ugly ones to be terrorists or something.
I remember the day the embassies were bombed, the adminstration came off as "well, it's over there . . ."
Also it seems like during this time, or maybe in the run-up, there was a great debate about the use of force in Kosovo, and the administration had been willing to authorize bombing only from galatic distances, etc.
The administration was:
(1) skeered of using military power just b/c it was skeered of using military power, and
(2) politically skeered of using military power b/c they in no way wanted to legitimate and validate the use of military power b/c American military power (to them) was the source of all eeevil in the world.
So if we hadn't gone into Iraq in March 2003, instead of worrying about North Korea and Iran, and fighting in Afghanistan to a lesser extent because of Iraq, and supporting democracies in both of those natons, we'd be fighting hard in Afghistan, as the only front, where all the terrorists could concentrate against us in much rougher terrain, and have to try and hold off North Korea, Iran, Iraq, AND Libyas WMD programs. Does anyone really think that scenario is more attractive then the situation today? Not me.
That's really touching. :(
LOL..sorry, I try to make that more known when discussing sex things. Otherwise it does come out sounding strange. So when I was agreeing that the actor Massoud was cute earlier in the thread I should have put in a disclaimer?!
NO PAPER RATTLE ON THE "formerly nicotine stained fingers."?
DAMN!
Wow who set those fires? The National Interns Union? :)
No, I'm the one who is confused. I should have figured out then that you were a woman, from that comment. ;-)
Thank you!
United we stand!
Thansk. There's so much it's actually hard to remember it all at once. And people actually think the Clinton administration was better then the Bush administration. Amazing. War is war and it has to be fought. Removing the war, the Bush administration is such a rosey walk in the park compared to the constant one scandle after another after another for eight years. There's no comparrison.
You like the paper rattle?
It makes my ears hurt.
:-(
However, this is the place to learn the truth. The links are always unassailable and the people are the friendliest anywhere.
[Keller makes me sick]
Ditto.
Oh yeah, and Whitewater and Webster Hubble. See there's just so much it's near impossible to remember in one memory stream. There's always more that comes to mind later.
Clinton pardoned 16 FALN terrorists in 1999, despite the FBI's advice.
He clearly did not put any stock in what the experts thought.
Amen.
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