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You mean like the last straw Bin Laden laid on us?
I don't think it's wise to wait for another 9/11.
Mark
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Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 16:16:52
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] little Threat
heyyyyy marko polo....before i counter your point, i just wanna say 'what a great country we live in...we should never take it for granted.' i think about it often, and ask myself, 'where else in this whole whole can a c5/c6 quad drive to work, enjoy all the security that we have here, get help financially and healthcare, and have a productive life?' In most places around the World people that end up in our position are either institutionalized, or family has to care for in ALL ways. Some, maybe most, Latin American countries don't have anything like wheelchair van lifts, or hand controls, no accessibility laws, lack of wheelchairs, especially custom or powered chairs....i knew a girl in Chile that never left her home!
Wish somebody would start humming the anthem while i type...
Oh yea, countering ur point....i didn't say Saddam wasn't ANY threat, but i don't think he was nearly the threat to go to war....War should be the absolute LAST straw, and we should be damn sure we have the World behind us in most cases. I keep hearing the 1,000 or so guys we have dead over there, but hardly do they mention nearly 7,000 coming back without arms, legs, SCI, blind, burned, brain damaged and mentally messed up. Not only is this war costing towards $300,000,000, but, as we know better than anybody, there are guys/gals coming back to suffer the fate of disability.
I will quote Jackson Browne, who we both love as a prolific songwriter, "there's a shadow on the faces of the men who fan the flames/of the wars that are fought in places/where their business interest runs....you see on the TV and talk shows, you hear it again and again, how the USA stands for freedom, and we come to the aide of a friend/but who are the ones that we call our friends?/ these governments killing their own/when a people finally can't take anymore, and they pick up a gun, or a brick, or stone...THERE ARE LIVES IN THE BALANCE"
white flag raised....tony
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] No Threat
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You know I hate that our soldiers fighting this war and losing their lives but I hardly think that Iraq wasn't a threat.
In 1993 Sadam tried to take former President Bush with a car bomb in Kuwait and President Clinton sent a couple cruise missiles into Iraqi intelligence headquarters.
Sadam repeatedly kicked out UN inspectors and used the oil for food money like an ATM machine.
All he had to do was show them how he destroyed his biological weapons and refused to.
Like I said I hate this war but how can anyone honestly say there's no threat.
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