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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; All
My belief is that they are of three camps:

1. Extreme Libertarians/Constitutionalists who want a declaration of war, and oppose on principle any pre-emptive attacks. On the declaration-of-war issue, they have some merit.

2. Pat Buchanan marks. They STILL seethe about his pathetic showings in elections, and blame Republicans. George Bush is their worst enemy, because they feel that he and his wing of the party "stole" it from Pat. They can be recognized by their almost-constant return to the issue of immigration reform and Israel.

3. Dedicated disruptors. Some are from DU, and simply CLAIM to be conservative, and some are without doubt posting from offices in Teheran, Beijing, and Baghdad. These can be recognized by their suggestions that we'd be better off voting for Democrats than "RINOs" like President Bush, and wild calls to boycott or attack Israel.

Just a few of my own observations. The sad part is, the first two provide information and intellectual ammunition to the third (suggestion of which, of course, triggers the "offended" response").


28 posted on 09/28/2002 7:37:52 PM PDT by Long Cut
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To: Long Cut; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Thanks, LC!
Excellent read!

My favorite one is one I ran across today:

"If we back him in a corner, he is definitely going to attack!"

Remember reading in your history books about the number of countries that tried to pacify and appease Hitler before he invaded Poland?

I'll repeat something I said on that thread:

"We lost 148 military personnel in Desert Storm, a pre-emptive attack to stop Sadaam Hussein.
We lost 600,000 military personnel in WW II when we didn't make a pre-emptive attack on Germany to stop Hitler.
Which course seems the most logical?"

51 posted on 10/13/2002 4:01:02 PM PDT by COB1
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