RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Cindy Sheehan on Bill Kristol

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Rick,

Isn't that what most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
did?  And our country's first politicians?  Just wondering why some
people never look to history for answers. Or guidance...

Also, I noticed your tag line.  Saw a blurb in the news the other day
that he was being watched and they just released the files.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR20070
90300886.html?sub=new -free registration required)

Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:discussion-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:58 AM
> To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Cindy Sheehan on Bill
> Kristol
> 
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 00:52 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> > I wouldn't say that people in my income bracket are doing anything
> > especially bad, and I didn't say anything of the sort.  I would like
> to
> > see everyone make better choices about who they elect to public
> office and
> > I would like for those in office to represent their constituents,
not
> > their biggest campaign contributors.
> >
> 
> Hell, I'd be happy to actual see a significant percentage spend the
> time
> to research their own choices before flipping the switch in the voting
> booth.
> 
> 
> > I would much rather see everyone serve in the military with all of
> them
> > being forced to go to war, if their is a war, regardless of parental
> > income or political office.  If that were the law, there would be no
> wars
> > for a long, long time.  When the people declaring war and the people
> dying
> > in the war are not relatives, you are going to see more war.
> >
> 
> That is a silly statement Mike. People in power have been sending
their
> own offspring to war since the beginning of war. Do you really think
> that because war is fought with machine guns instead of swords that's
> going to make a difference? For this logic to work, *Congress* would
> have to be in the field fighting...
> 
> > Mike
> 
> Rick
> 
> --
> Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings
> than
> it will get in practice.
> George Orwell
> 
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