RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

An interesting point of fact on the Iraq situation.
The Allies that were not with us in this war were profiteering off of
the status quo. In fact, it was even through the intelligence of one or
two of them that we got the best evidence of WMD. It strikes me as
interesting that several countries were on our side of things, but the
few that weren't seam to constitute "The World Community".

Shannon Spurling
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Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

> Can you not see how narrow-minded and uninformed you appear to be?
There
> is a whole world out there with about 6 billion people outside the USA
and
> you actually don't care what they think?  You see it as an
us-against-them
> situation where they want to either "take our money" or "attack us."
I
> assume you will vote for Bush!  Your isolationist, nationalistic
approach
> will destroy our country.
>
> Mike

Many times it is an us-against-them situation. Sometimes you have to
stand up 
for what is right. As a country the US stands for Liberty and Justice,
we 
have always been at an us-against-them situation. The US Revolutionaries

against the British Empire. Overwhelming odds against us, yet we fought
for 
what was right ( freedom among other things ). The Cold War - The
massive 
USSR against the US, this was another huge us-against them scenario. The

civil war - us against ourselves but again supporting what was right. 
Afghanistan - us against them going after terrorists. Iraq (although
more 
controversial) Us against the world because no one would support us in
taking 
down a dictatorship that was a corrupt tyrany. It's not Isolationist, 
isolationist would mean we isolate ourselves and ignore the rest of the 
world. No, we are actively trying to improve the world, bring freedom to

where there was tyrany, remove corrupt dictatorships, spread democracy.
Isn't 
this what the US has always been about, and what they have done?
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