Re: OT: something to be looked at by both rep and dem

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 8, 8:46=A0am, Frank Olson
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> Jim wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 11:26 pm, Effenpig1 <dirtyspicev...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Jan 7, 5:07 pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>> On Jan 7, 12:45 pm, "petem" <petem...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dakm3nYN8aG8
> >>>> This kid make sense, a new revolution should come!
> >>>> cause its no more by the people for the people..
> >>>> now its by the people for the leaders.
> >>> Okay then you start it
> >> Newsflash - War is unpleasant
>
> > Yeah, I remember when it used to be unpleasent.
>
> > Does any one remember?
>
> > When the point was to defeat your enemy, not to be careful that you
> > didn't bomb a certain building or didn't shoot in this direction or
> > that. When you saw the enemy you destroyed them and if =A0you weren't
> > sure, you destroyed them anyway.
>
> > Remember? That's when we used to win wars.
>
> I'm too young. =A0I only remember the ones you lost.
>
>
>
> > All the Americans who sacraficed their lives for this country are
> > turning in their graves =A0.... if such a thing were possible. Any who
> > are alive have got to be totaly embarrassed at what a bunch of pussies
> > this nation has turned into.
>
> It's not so much the "bunch of pussies". =A0It's the lack of leadership,
> political support and will. =A0There was no clear goal established for th=
e
> invasion of Iraq. =A0WMD didn't exist. =A0When you start a war based on a
> lie everyone loses. =A0It's Vietnam and Korea all over again. =A0America =
is
> fighting a "war", but the detainees aren't considered POW's. =A0They're
> "illegal combatants". =A0The North Vietnamese used exactly the same
> excuses for the torture and treatment of captured American soldiers.

Actually they are POW's and the problem is the left wants to treat
them like illegal combatants because they view this as a police action
and not a war.

> I've just finished a book called the Pinochet Files. =A0America needs to
> get their own house in order and stop interfering in the politics and
> government of other nations. =A0Obama has a long hard road ahead of him.
> Here's hoping he'll bring "honesty", "truth", and "justice" back into
> the American Lexicon.

I remember that line of thinking, it was from someone named Jimmy
Carter