From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat May 03 2003 - 21:22:01 MDT
In a message dated 5/3/2003 8:51:44 PM Central Standard Time,
paatschb@optusnet.com.au writes: In my opinion the distrust is not
anti-American. It is the distrust of the disenfranchised and the
disempowered. It is the same sort of sentiment that caused an earlier
generation of Americans to go to war to assert their rights not to be taxed
(governed) without being represented.
Brett,
You have to understand that many serious and sincere Americans read
statements like that and in fact as your entire set of comments as being
largely an attempt to sell America a big piece of phony baloney.
You have to also understand that many serious and sincere Americans
saw a threat out of Sadaam and out of the Al Qaida. We do not intend to live
under that threat. In fact we are still proceeding against what remains of
the Sadaam machine as well as the other terrorists. I think at this point
the only way you are going to impress the majority of Americans that you are
proposing something sincere and effectual is to have you announce that you
intend to defend us yourself and then proceed to do so.
You might begin by reading the Egyptian newspaper and then financing a
drive to bring their newspaper columnists into the real world. They are
conducting a verbal holy war against the Americans and the Israelis
reminiscent of the propaganda campaign of Hitler against the Jewish citizenry
of his own country -- of course we all remember how that ended don't we?
I am truly sorry to find myself on the opposite side of this question
from you but if you wish me to join you then you will have to offer me more
than either to stand nobly silent while my throat is cut or to wring my hands
and exclaim "woe is me, I am so bad" while you and others mouth a propaganda
campaign against my country. We have done nothing but defend ourselves from
violent threats. I beg you to understand that we do not regard it as nice of
you (plural, the people you defend) to kill Americans by the thousands nor to
threaten to do so. We will do it again.
Ron h.
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