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"Carter Lee" <crlee@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> John K wrote:
> > What do YOU believe in that you are willing to die for?  I'm not talking
> > words, I'm talking going and standing in the line of fire.
>
> I won't put words in anybody's mouth but I will tell you that I believe
> freedom is worth putting you life on the line for.  I believe that so
> strongly that I spent 35 years of my life under contract of unlimited
> liability as a member of the Canadian military.  I would still be doing
> that except the government tells me I am too old to do it anymore.

What does freedom have to do with Bush's lust to destroy an already weak and
defenceless country?


> I have instilled that attitude in my children also.  My oldest son is
> also in the military and so is his wife, in fact at present she is
> deployed on Operation Opollo in the Persian Gulf.  Should my son also be
> required to deploy my wife and I would not hesitate to take custody of
> our two grandchildren and raise them if necessary if their parents
> should pay the supreme sacrifice defending the freedom that we hold so
dear.

The freedom to be complicit in Bush's desire to promote crimes against
humanity? It wont take long for Bush to outdo his ole buddy Saddam in the
body count.

> That's what I have done and would do.  You?

I would teach my children that "patriotism is the last refuge of the
scoundrel". I would try and teach them a little about history too so they
wouldnt make the same mistakes their parents did

>
> BTW standing in the line of fire as a human shield is about the most
> useless act in which anybody could participate in Iraq.  All that would
> do is get you killed without having participated in any useful way in
> the defence of freedom.

True enough - but Im glad you admit that Saddam wont be the target as much
as Iraq's infrastructure will be - I thought the war was about getting rid
of weapons of mass destruction not water purification plants?

 It doesn't surprise me that the lefties who
> went to Iraq would not do that, did you really expect people who refuse
> to take up arms to defend their own or anyone else's freedom to actually
> 'stand in the line of fire'?
> Carter

Many of the so-called "lefties" you so contemptously libel are actually
Mennonite pacifists (at least from Manitoba) - they are motivated by their
faith not politics. Mennonites tend to support "right-wing" political ideas
as opposed to "left-wing" ideas. You don't believe in "freedom" - you
believe in "might is right". You should try being honest with yourself or
would you rather revel in death and destruction. Speaking of useful idiots..

Keith M.
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