Gregory Morrow wrote:

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> Unfortunately acts of war are sometimes not only useful, they're
> sometimes the best possible avenue of action -- and thus necessary,
> e.g. the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, the US Revolutionary
> War, etc., etc....

Yeah, really "useful". Kill people to resolve your differences.
Barbaric, at best.

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> > <snip>
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> > > Of course you will, just as I do Just saying... articles are just that.
> > > Articles. Opinions.
> >
> > Yeah, and unfortunately, these kinds of "articles" are about all that
> > we are "allowed" to read about this assinine war...THAT is what ****es
> > me off. To get any decent news, you have to surf to Europe or the
> > Middle East when they aren't blocking the connections...
>
>
> Actually it's your tinfoil hat that is "blocking the connections"...

Um, no, asshole.

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> BTW, if you bother to read the _Times_ and other sources there are
> plenty of articles about the war.

Which "Times" would that be? There isn't a single major (or hell,
even minor) newspaper in this country that isn't heavily censored.

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> This particular article's topic happened to concern food items that
> folks sent the troops...or did you read it?

I read enough to know it was merely a "personal interst" piece and had
nothing to do with anything of substance.

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> > > Just like I'm not packing peanut butter because of
> > > your adopted son,
> >
> > Humm....I didn't know we were going to be on the same flight!
> > LOL...Seriously, I don't worry about the odd passenger with a
> > peanutbutter cookie or sandwich - I can always ask to be moved. In
> > fact, I don't expect anyone individual to take us into consideration.
> > What I do worry about is an entire cabin or airplane filled with nuts.
> > I just want the option of changing flights if nuts are served.
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> If I knew I was going to be on a flight with you lot I'd bring on TONS
> of peanuts...

That's a really nice thing to say about an innocent two year old child.
Of course people like you are the kind who advocate war...no life
means anything to you except your own.


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> > >I'm also not adverse to shipping some cookies to folks
> > > serving in Iraq.
> >
> > Neither am I. I feel sorry for the kids who feel like they have no
> > option but to join the military because they are poor and not
> > academically gifted. There's a whole hell of a lot of them giving
> > their lives for being poor.
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>
> That's life...and *everybody* eventually dies.

And many die because of the whims of rich (predominantly white) fat
asses who don't have a clue what it means to have to struggle to
survive.

-L.