Keith, Totally agree with everything you wrote. By the way, they keep
calling Bush a "COWBOY". Now what the hell is wrong with being a cowboy. Cowboys
work a lot harder and are a whole lot more trustworthy than politicians.
Doug Odom in big ditch
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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