Posted by capricorn on April 30, 2006, at 21:52:18
In reply to Here is another view...long but worth reading..., posted by wildcard11 on March 28, 2006, at 21:41:57
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> I pass this on because sometimes we just forget. This is a good one!
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> > Steven R Chandler, CMSgt
> > 332 ELRS/Vehicle Management
> > Flight Balad Air Base, Iraq
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> > The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at
> > war...My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and
> > I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve
> > and defend our Country again today. I knew that my husband would give him
> > a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my
> > son to go stand in our front living room window.
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> > He said "Son, stand there and tell me what you see?"
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> > "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he replied.
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> > "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and our yard is the United
> > States of America and you are President Bush."
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> > Our son giggled and said "OK."
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> > "Now son, I want you to look out the window and pretend that every house
> > and yard on this block is a different country" my husband said.
Reading that made me want to throw up. As does the whole 'America-guardian of democracy' BS.Look at the way Bush and his barmy bunch of right wing barbarians insist on p**ing all over democracy with their anti Chavez stance or the way America p*ssed all over a democratically elected left wing government in Nicaragua.
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