Keith,
You express my views splendidly! I think that none of us relishes going
to war, but enough is enough!! I have friends in harms way in this one
once again. I lost a nephew in W.W.II and another in Vietnam, any loss
of life on either side is too much. Chances are that we lost more lives
in the September 11 attack than will be lost in the war. However, this
war does not have to happen, the ball is, and always has been, in
Saddam's court.
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC
Keith Turk wrote:
> I have desperately tried to keep politic's and religion off of the list....
> and for the most part have been successful.... We as a collective group of
> people have one thing in common... and that is land speed racing... so
> opinions and attitudes really don't have much of a place here on the list...
> We have conserative's, liberals, Cristians, agonostic's and whatever.... so
> trying to appease everyone on average it's best simply to refrain........
> ALL that having been said.... I'm going to break my own guideline....
>
> I have tremendous respect for anyone who has put his life in harm's way for
> the principles we hold near and dear as free democratic society's... and I
> want to include our Dear freinds in England and Austrailia ... I know some
> of you don't want us to be involved in this whole affair... well such is
> life.... get over it...we have committed to doing it and our boys are going
> to be in harms way yet again.... this time is going to be different...
> how... I don't know... it's just not going to be the same... We as a
> collective society have a debt to them to support them in the endevor...
> like it or not.... they are simply the folks that are taking the real risk
> here.
>
> I want to share something really brief.... I heard way to many times that we
> should have ousted Saddam the first time.... BUT that wasn't our mandate...
> our job was to free Kuwait...and we did.... I've sat there on the Highway
> of Death... in an Apache the day of the cease fire and seen a defeated
> Army.... shooting folks carrying white flags isn't the way we are built...
> and to have gone on at that point would have been to kill many many
> countless innocent folks.
>
> Today when I watched the people of Iraq celebrate the destruction of the
> World trade towers in an old clip on CNN I wanted to throw up.... it's
> time... right wrong or indifferent we now have a debt to our troops...
>
> Keith
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