🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:30:46 GMT, rex@intr.net (Rex) wrote:

>If we had won Vietnam, our freedom would now be more solidified???  I
>really don't agree.  The Vietnamese haven't comtemplated a take over
>of the US that I know of.

No but the Chinese and Rusians who were backing them sure where.

>As for serving our country.  Most people work hard,  for free until
>mid May, just to pay their federal taxes.  Some of us (in Washington
>DC), do not even have congressional representation to show for it.

You know that is not what i was talking about, you can not buy freedom
you do have some patriotic duties to perform.  As for your thing with
Washington DC, I have a very simple solution, MOVE to either Maryland
or Virginia.

>Fighting a political nonesense war, is not service to your country -
>it is service to your elected officials, who should be serving you.

And who made it a political nonsense war?  People like you who
disagreed with the war.  They made such a noise that the politicians
were scared.  And furthermore, there is a lot of other services one
can perform that does not have to do with the military.

>And when you found out how the government went about the "war", it
>probably made you suffer more.  I am suprised that you are not
>downright pissed.
No I was pissed off at the protesters not the government.  What really
makes you feel good is when you come back from a war and have the
people you are fighting for through shit on you and call you a baby
killer.  That is a lot of fun.

>It doesn't take themselves long to vote themselves a raise, and to
>vote to exempt themselves from the laws they impose on the public.  I
>think the swiftness depends on who will benefit from the act.

How else can they get themselves a raise?  When was the last time you
had a raise?  Granted they make way too much money but!

>They would laugh at me too.  But, since I have no elected
>representatives (Washington DC),  what's the point?
>
>What other "democratic" or "free" country in this world, supports
>taxation without representation for the residents of their capital?
>
>Why, if another country did this, the US would decry it as tyranny,
>and commit our military to rectify the situation.  The irony is rarely
>realized, though.

Come on!  All you have to do is move!  It would not be that much of a
hardship.  Maryland and Virginia are not that much further from any
job you might have.

>Well, it isn't Bush's war anymore.  Bush isn't the president.  Clinton
>is pursuing the issue now.  Notice the timing.  Even the majority of
>our allies realize the bullshit reasons and timing behind this thing,
>and they want nothing to do with it.

That doesn't make any sense to me.  Our alies are only thinking of one
thing and that is the things that they can sell to Iraq and that is
all!

>Actually, I don't even think that it is a "war" per se.  Isn't it a
>"military action", like Vietnam?

Define for me military action!

Dave Hutchings
In New Hampshire
EMail Address drftg@mv.mv.com