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Re: 9/11 Panel: No Evidence Connecting Iraq to Al Qaeda
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:20:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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It’s also funny that Clinton is still ridiculed for discussing the meaning
of is as it pertained to a legal extramarital affair between two adults,
but no one in the media is complaining about Dubya’s wholesale manipulation
of language.
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I think I know why. The stakes are so much higher now that it is too
horrifying to accept. Most people I know, as far as I can figure, simply
refuse to believe that President Bush was lying to us the whole time to gain
approval to pursue his own agenda. I think that with all the lives that have
been lost, many people are just unwilling to accept the evidence. When it
was Clinton, nothing but self-respect was at stake.
I’m not interested in making fun of ‘the masses’ for this. I think it’s a
fascinating social phenomenon. It seems like you can point to most of our
wars and see similar acceptance. I wonder how this played out with
Vietnam...anyone out there old enough to discuss it (I was born a few months
after my dad was drafted).
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I’m not “old enough”, but it’s my feeling that the Vitenam War was perpetuated
by anti-communist hysteria and an unwillingness to concede defeat. Ordinary
Americans thought they were doing the right thing, but when service men started
refusing to fight the whole thing was blown open.
Nixon: “I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right
than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a
second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud
190-year history.”
Spellman: “This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly
it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield
to tyranny.”
Scott A
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