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RE: [RC] [RC] [RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will! - Susan Young CaseyTeri, I'm proud of your sons too! I'll pray for your sons', as well as all the other service members', safety. I am extremely grateful for the sacrifice those past and present have made to our freedom. Our freedom didn't come cheap. As a matter of fact, we had to fight for it. We STILL have to fight for it. I don't believe this nation would go to war on a whim either! That's hooey! --- Teri Hunter <teri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have mixed feeling about war. Yes, I believe it is the only way. No, I would like both of my sons to return home safely. Am I proud of my sons, EXTREMELY. Teri Navy mom of 2 -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shelley Kerr Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:37 AM To: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; FASTGraphic@xxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; eyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will! Just as Truman had quoted. First you ask them. Then you tell them. Then you thump them. At all costs. Saddam has been given ample opportunities. It's time to thump him. Shelley -------Original Message------- From: Heidi Smith Date: Thursday, March 06, 2003 08:02:30 AM To: Shelley Kerr; eyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; FASTGraphic@xxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] WARNING - POLITICAL delete at will! Well put, Shelley. For me, war isn't about personal safety, either--but it is about a lot of the other things that Scott quoted in his John Stuart Mill quote, and that you have also articulated here. War is not something to undertake lightly, but beyond even the context of our current world situation, I always wonder about folks who claim they have no principles or philosophies that are worth defending. I'd hate to war over something petty, but I'd hate even worse to not have anything for which I'd stand up and fight. My dad is one of the ones who faced being drafted in WWII, and he had an older brother in the military and a younger brother that claimed to be a CO. Dad also had a wife and daughter at the time (no, not me--I came later), and was nearly graduated from theological seminary--and the military felt that they would rather have the new graduates take the local churches and have more mature men go as military chaplains, so he ended up not being asked to serve. But he says that he wrestled with this question, and it came down to this--if he witnessed a friend or family member lying in the road, and a tank about to run over that friend or family member, and he had a bazooka, what would he do with it? And he said that he realized that he would shoot the tank with the bazooka. And given that, he surmised that yes, there was reason to go to war against somebody like Hitler, who was running over entire populations with his military machine. Saddam is not unlike Hitler, and given the more sophisticated military weapons of today and the speed with which war can be made, I sincerely hope that we don't let Saddam get into the position of strength that we allowed Hitler to attain by our unwillingness to join in the fight. I am not keen to live in a world where I have to kowtow to a dictator, nor where I would have to grow a garden and eat my horses to survive. Heidi ____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here ===== Susan Young Casey, Princess of Pink, LIW, RRHA, RHS Semper Obliquo (Always aside) Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson, Oklahoma U.S.A. "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles Dickens (1812-1870) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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