I should probably not get sucked in to responding to something so off topic
and inflammatory, but I guess I'm not too smart like that. Let me just share a
couple thoughts with you. Just so you know, I'm a conservative republican.
I left a good job to join the Army reserves because I thought I owed it to the
US for the life it gave me. I got no college money, I was out of college. I
didn't go in as an officer even though they offered it to me. I had to sell
my car to get enough to keep my apartment for my wife while I was gone. And
this was before 9/11, before it was hip to love your country, when you saw one
house WITH a flag if you drove around all day, not the other way around. When
my neighbor two doors down was away at the beginning of the war and left his
wife and three kids home my wife and I took care of their place for her, fixed
the driveway when a storm washed it out, watched the kids every once in a
while, you get the picture. And we send two care packages a month to the
soldiers, plus some donations to the funds that help the families. So I'm not
telling you this stuff because I want an award, just so you know it's coming
from
someone who supports the troops. So anyway,
Just keep in mind that there are people who oppose the war with Iraq because
they don't want fighting no matter what, but there are also a lot who agree
with you that the war on terror is really important. In fact they think it's
SO
important they think it's too important to do wrong. A lot of them supported
the invasion of Afghanistan. A lot of them love the soldiers as much as you
do, in fact that's why they don't like the war, it can be a reason to feel
either way.
I saw Fahrenheit 9/11. I thought a lot of things in it were BS. A lot of
people say it shouldn't be called a documentary, but Michael Moore doesn't call
it one, he readily admits it's a biased attack based on his own opinions. And
no matter what people say is misleading in it, no one says the films aren't
real. No one says the pictures of the President are an actor dressed up like
him. And if you watch it you will see film you will never have seen before of
the President after they told him about the attacks, and it will make you at
least as queasy as that site you sent us to.
F 9/11 is no gospel. But it's worth seeing. Near the end, Moore says
something like "in our system, it's always the people who benefit least from
America's prosperity and freedom who have to die to protect it. All they ask
is that
we not send them to their deaths unless its absolutely necessary. Will they
ever trust us again?"
And, no matter what your political leanings, how can you argue that? Let me
tell you my dad's from a coal mining town in Appalachia and I live in a rich
area in CT. That stuff about the poor people fighting the wars is no BS, I've
seen the difference in how many people go from the two types of place. I'm
not going to go into all the reasons someone who supports the troops and
believes the war on terror is important and worth dying for can also oppose the
invasion of Iraq, but my point is to ask you to consider that there are a lot
of
people who feel that way, and they have some pretty thought provoking reasons
for doing so. If you want mine, contact me off list and I'll try to share
them.
Either way, good on you for your love of country, even if I think it's a
little misdirected it's obviously strong and that's to be admired.
Mark M.
In a message dated 7/12/2004 12:18:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
RBHouston@aol.com writes:
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