XPost: or.politics, or.general   
   From: LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com   
      
   "David Loftus"  wrote in message   
   news:1151595717.270466.256540@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...   
      
   >> "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink   
   >> from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves   
   >> the   
   >> love and thanks of man and woman."   
   >>                     -Thomas Paine   
   >   
   > Not to cast any aspersions on the Tucker and Jones families in their   
   > time of loss, but just how would you say the Paine quote applies to our   
   > adventure in Iraq, Chris?   
      
   There are those beating their chest and calling for war, and there are those   
   quiet in their opinion going about the business of war because they believe   
   what they're doing is right, or simply because they were told to do so.   
      
   It takes balls to gamble your life and your religious belief--the   
   immortality of your soul--on what you -think- is the right thing to do and   
   to be able to summon that strength as if instictually, the instant the need   
   arises.   
      
   > Would you have used it for our shooting war in the Philippines at the   
   > turn of the last century, too?   
      
   Don't know.   
      
   -c   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)