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   PEACHY TALLIAFERRO CARNEHAN to All   
   Re: Robert Conquest Wins the Presidentia   
   10 Nov 05 14:33:01   
   
   From: HJKHFJKLHFJKHJ@GHGUGYBHMNASRDH.LUX   
      
   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
   news:1131625854.710170.179740@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > Maybe she's left again in disgust.   
   >   
   > Did you notice, once again, not one word of substance to back up   
   > anything. Just a bunch of "holier than thou" barbs that fit the   
   > berkeleyish playbook--like "secret torture dungeons."   
   >   
   > And did you notice ROB, when I brought up the contradictions and   
   > ironies of Orwell fighting for the "not quite lily white handed"   
   > Spanish Republic after all the adolescent babble over "double think"   
   > not one word in reply.   
   >   
   > You see, some of us have lived long enough, and had enough life   
   > experiences to know that life doesn't always give us perfect choices.   
   > But that doesn't mean that we don't have to make them.For example,   
   > there are many many things I don't see eye to eye with the current   
   > resident of the Oval office--but on the major point, I most certainly   
   > do.  He is SERIOUS about protecting this country.  He is also SERIOUS   
   > about bringing democracy and human rights to 40 million people.  Is all   
   > this without cost? No. But in looking at this conflict in historical   
   > terms, (50,000 dead in the Korean War, 50,000 dead in Vietnam) it has   
   > certainly been worth it.   
   >   
   > The Democrat party has lost me forever.  I will never trust them again.   
   >   They disgusted me during the Clinton administration, but I was   
   > willing to give them a chance after 911. Now look what they're doing.   
   > They are willing to  try and mortally wound a sitting president in a   
   > time of war with LIES.  They can't challange him with an alternative   
   > vision or their own plan--cause they don't have one. They are so over   
   > the edge, that the chairman of the DNC, Howard Dean,  stated that GWB   
   > knew about 911 in advance. What's next? Osama works for Haliburton? And   
   > the worst part, when you confront them with evidence to the contrary,   
   > nothing in return, just more of the same or silence.   
   >   
   > Mordor indeed. More like the real world.   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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