to our president and his entourage over the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
It is amazing here in the U.S. how the great majority don't know or are ill-informed
on the lies the invasion was based on.
as you tell our president you differ strongly with his polices. Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you! We admire and respect you Brits for doing what we have been trying
to do. Our gratitude to you.
As a fellow Missourian said:
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders." (Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889)
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may. (Mark Twain)
Respectfully,
American Vet
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I Second the Thank You
19.11.2003 21:29
We truly appreciate your show of support for peace and protests against those who use power and money to initimidate and lie to the public, and steal public office.
My brother is just back from Iraq. Fortunately unhurt. Unfortunately still worried about those he left behind. Just so the Oil Barons of Texas can have More! More! MORE! But I say I want Mike Moore! Moore! MOORE!
I am glad to hear that you are allowed to protest. We in The Land of the Not-So-Free now have Protest Zones. I am waiting to get arrested at the next local protest for wearing a shirt that says:
ALL OF AMERICA IS A PROTEST ZONE!
Getting scarier every day.
Yours in Peace.
Meg
Meg
e-mail: mincognito@hotmail.com
Does not represent most Americans
19.11.2003 21:37
Steve Watson
TO: Steve Watson
19.11.2003 21:46
I feel I represent most INFORMED Americans. Unfortunately, most of us
are in the dark about what is really going on.
Steve Watson appears to be one of those who remain clueless.
American Vet
American Vet
Homepage: http://www/ussliberty.org
Thank you from Miami
19.11.2003 21:56
More to the point, however, is the fact that moral decisions are not a matter of polling or seeing "which way the wind blows." You may only go to war if there is a true moral necessity that overrides our belief that though shalt not kill, etc. That standard was not met. The War was wrong. I apologize, as an American, for the actions of my President and country, but I could but stop the race to bloodshed. I thank you for the protests you are staging.
SAM
Bush doctrine
19.11.2003 22:10
Bush doctrine - application/msword 28K
We all want peace with honesty and freedom with courage and liberty with non-violence.
Like the American Vet, Thank You, Thank you!!!
Anup, USA
You are so wrong....
19.11.2003 22:32
It is only your elitist view that millions of American are un-informed or don't support the President. We are quite well informed and can come to our own conslusions - thank you very much.
I strongly urge everyone to check out this link
http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/impact_war_issue.pdf on the moral justification and the neccesity of going to war.
Regards,
NS
Nick S
Sod the muppets supporters!
19.11.2003 22:42
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Thank you, England, from Little Beirut [a.k.a. Portland, OR]
19.11.2003 22:50
George's stained dress
mcj
Thanks from another Yankee activist
20.11.2003 00:32
Andrew Goodman
e-mail: andrewlloydgood@yahoo.com
To Nick S.
20.11.2003 23:52
" ... To attack [a nation] is like invading a neighbor's home, running him out and expropriating his property... Thus, war among civilised peoples is a CRIME: the so-called right to war does not exist--it is confused with the right to self-defense, a sacred right,...an absolute duty for all men who cherish their families, nations and freedom."
Sorry Nick that you've been brainwashed into believing the Iraq invasion was necessary. Do some peace history research for a change!!
Ralph,
Portland,OR
Ralph