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daveald
One of my friends sent this to me, thought you would enjoy reading it.
>
> This is great! This says it all!!!!
>
> I LOVE THIS COMEBACK ---
>
> As some of you may know, one of my sons serves in the military. He is
>
> still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me
>know
>
> how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere
>he
>
> goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being
>
> willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that
> others
>
> may have them also.
>
> But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped
>at
>
> yesterday on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several
>
> people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when
>
> she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the USflag lapel pin
>
> the cashier wore on her smock.
>
> The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "yes, I
>
> always wear it and I probably always will."
>
> The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to
>
> stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.
>
> A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm
>
> around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm
>and
>
> gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men
>and
>
> women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand
> here, in
>
> MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen.
>
> It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country,
>we
>
> wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how
>to
>
> speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay
>your
> way
>
> back to Iraqso you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you
> are
>
> obviously here in MY country to avoid."
>
> Everyone within hearing distance cheered.
>
> Pass it on....
>
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  • jma2006
    quote:Originally posted by daveald
    One of my friends sent this to me, thought you would enjoy reading it.
    >
    > This is great! This says it all!!!!
    >
    > I LOVE THIS COMEBACK ---
    >
    > As some of you may know, one of my sons serves in the military. He is
    >
    > still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me
    >know
    >
    > how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere
    >he
    >
    > goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being
    >
    > willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that
    > others
    >
    > may have them also.
    >
    > But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped
    >at
    >
    > yesterday on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several
    >
    > people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha. He said when
    >
    > she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the USflag lapel pin
    >
    > the cashier wore on her smock.
    >
    > The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly, "yes, I
    >
    > always wear it and I probably always will."
    >
    > The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to
    >
    > stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.
    >
    > A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm
    >
    > around my son's shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm
    >and
    >
    > gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of men
    >and
    >
    > women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand
    > here, in
    >
    > MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen.
    >
    > It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country,
    >we
    >
    > wouldn't need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how
    >to
    >
    > speak out so loudly and clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay
    >your
    > way
    >
    > back to Iraqso you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you
    > are
    >
    > obviously here in MY country to avoid."
    >
    > Everyone within hearing distance cheered.
    >
    > Pass it on....
    >




    Alot of people don't know how good they got it, do they.
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  • kristov
    I once had a guy at a gas station wearing a yamika (Jewish headwear) protest my driving a Mercedes Nazi car,but he drove off in his Bently before I could say much about it.
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  • allen griggs
    I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence.
    Nov. 6, 2000
    George W. Bush
    Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place. (more)

    I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.
    Oct. 11, 2000
    George W. Bush
    Somalia. It started off as a humanitarian mission then changed into a nation-building mission and that's where the mission went wrong. The mission was changed. And as a result, our nation paid a price, and so I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war. I think our troops ought to be used to help overthrow a dictator when it's in our best interests. But in this case, it was a nation-building exercise. And same with Haiti. I wouldn't have supported either. (more)

    A nation-building corps from America. Absolutely not.
    Oct. 11, 2000
    George W. Bush
    I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I'm missing something here. I mean we're going to have kind of a nation-building corps from America. Absolutely not. Our military is meant to fight and win war. That's what it's meant to do and when it gets overextended, morale drops.
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  • allen griggs
    n 1994, Cheney explained his reasons for not advocating an invasion of Iraq following the first gulf war:

    Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?

    A: No.

    Q: Why not?

    A: Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq.

    Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it - eastern Iraq - the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey.

    It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.

    The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families - it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.
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