Re: > WIFE'S REQUEST

never@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:32:49 -0700 (PDT), "IMSum1good@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<IMSum1good@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I feel very sorry for our troops over fighting somebody else's civil
war that we should have never entered. I know three people pver in
Iraq now.

How ironic that you posted this crap story the very week that the
4,000 dead in Iraq mark was reached.

I thought everyone in the United States wants out of this war; I guess
I thought wrong.

God bless America? No, God help America.

Sylvia
Man, I so don't want a diatribe on the war. And I apologize for
copying and pasting THE ENTIRE thing, including the God Bless
America. I think THAT whole theme has a forum in all of our minds,
hearts, souls etc....AND one more apology, I did not put an OT in the
subject line. Just lazy.

BUT. and that would be bold and italicized or underlined if formatting
was available on Google, (I wonder why it isn't...)

I do not believe there are many more critical of the mess of a massive
atrocity WE have done than I.

And again, I think there are enough realms in which to skyrocket blood
pressures and WE HERE don't need it... It is like abortion and a few
other topics that people are so steeped in there opinions that agree
or disagree, they will not change their minds so it is not worth it.

But Sylv, (I hope we aRE STILL ON A FIRST NAME BASIS ANDI AM REFERRING
TO THE RIGHT PERSON...) My point was the soldiers. The men and women
who served there and continue to serve there--- (Save for the
mercinary crazies who are there for reasons that not only disgust me,
but shame me.) Those men and women are heroes and they deserve
intense respect....

You know? I was eight years old when I was so bemused to hear my
mother cursing as we marched in Washington shouting, "ONE, TWO, THREE
FOUR, WE DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING WAR." (Sorry for the profanity.)

But we deserted those people. And they were our Fathers, Mothers,
Sisters, and Brothers. And they were US TOO.

My heart strings are torn, and my tears flow because of the way we
treated them when they got home.

I AM SO SORRY. IT IS ONE OF ONLY VERY FEW REAL SORROWS OF MY LIFE
THAT THOUGH I WAS JUST A KID, I DIDN'T KNOW. I DIDN'T REALIZE.

I was in my twenties when a friend and I made the drive from Brooklyn
to Washington and ended up in the early morning at the Memorial.

I cried. I took in those names and the scope of the generation that
we decimated and I cried.

I am certain that my 200+ pound tough guy with me did also.

I teared up when I read that too.

I don't think we, as a nation, detest the warriors this time. Just
the war. I vehemently objected to the war, (IF IT CAN EVEN BE
DIGNIFIED WITH THAT TITLE), before it even STARTED.

For the first time in my life I was ashamed to BE an American. We are
a bunch of idiots for being there.

But it is still someone's Father, Mother, Sister, Brother AND HUSBAND
who are fighting it. And THEY should not go through what the Veterans
of our last quagmire endured.

Anyway, I hope I have expressed myself clearly. I often don't with
all of this jello between my ears.

Peace Out,
Eric


The subject of placing responsibility/accountability for any action
does not lie in that quirky cloud of being accountable by stating
America did this or that or that we did this or that. People do
things, not the government! People take action, not some department or
office. People make decisions that effect millions of other human
being, not the USA.

When we start holding people, those we elect or choose through several
processes to carry out actions under the name of some post or elected
office that effect people, we will note a direct and clear change in
the behavior of "government." Because if the voters don't exercise the
most important franchise, the vote, and by that vote demand that
changes that effects all in a positive way or means, this nation will
not survive. Too often, we defer to the elected folks a possibility
that they somehow possess some greater intelligence than the voters.
It is shear folly make that assumption, that being elected separates
them from us. Ain't so.

I have a right to be safe in my home without some politician making
decisions contrary to his/her elected promises and goals. We have
elected folks giving this country away for purposes that satisfy
themselve and not the voters.

Donn

I nominate Donn for President!!

Alex
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