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  • To support our troops is to support warfare

    05/18/2003 6:49:46 AM PDT · by Leisler · 35 replies · 215+ views
    Cape Cod Times ^ | May 18, 2003 | BEATRICE JOHNSON
    In your April 27 editorial you say "wearing a yellow ribbon is not a political statement in support of warfare" but rather "a reminder that we may know someone in the service who is sacrificing his or her life for our freedom" - a major contradiction! If you favor "supporting the troops" when they are engaged in warfare, you support warfare. It's that simple. Those poor souls who die in combat are sacrificing their lives because they bought the story that killing the "enemy" (whomever the "leader" chooses to call "enemy") keeps you free. What is "freedom"? If freedom implies...