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   From: crwlrjeff@yahoo.com   
      
   "Gary L. Burnore"  wrote in message   
   news:i660gf$j0e$3@nntpd.databasix.com...   
   > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:19:05 -0700 (PDT), "His Highness the   
   > TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>"Gen. David Petraeus added his voice to mounting protests from both   
   >>the US and abroad over the Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn   
   >>Korans on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terror   
   >>attacks. His comments ratcheted up the pressure on once-obscure pastor   
   >>Terry Jones to call off the event."   
   >   
   > Republians don't care.   
      
      
   Let's say for the sake of discussion that two candidates are running for   
   office. Let's say you and I are those two candidates. I favor a strong war   
   footing and kicking the crap out of anybody that says, "America is the   
   infadel and must be destroyed." You favor sitting down with these same   
   people over coffee and skoans to discuss how we can roll over to them.   
      
   Given those two positions, one would clearly put the troops at risk while   
   the other would not.   
      
   Are we to accept the notion that just because Candidate 1 is more   
   inflamatory than Candidate 2, we should vote for Candidate 2?   
      
   YOU and your supporters might prefer your approach to mine and that of my   
   supporters, but just because the troops are exposed or shielded is not   
   reason to vote. And the risk level of the troops is not reason to deny one   
   candidate to even speak.   
      
   I, personally, do not think that burning the Koran is a good idea or that it   
   will accomplish anything. But the idiot that wants to burn it has every   
   right to burn it, just as you have every right to burn our own Flag yet I   
   feel that it is also a bad idea.   
      
   Those that oppose the burning of the Koran, especially the Muslim   
   opposition, have no problem burning down an entire church, or killing a man   
   or woman just for carrying a Bible, then burning the Bible after they are   
   done killing the person carrying it.   
      
   When you are taking sides on this issue, you should be mindful of whom has   
   declared war on who. We must never be afraid to confront our enemy, whether   
   we confront it on the battlefield or in our own neighborhoods. When the   
   citizenry of the United States of America is afraid to do anything out of   
   concern that an ENEMY might take offense, then that enemy has won.   
      
   I don't think the Pastor in Florida should be burning the Koran, but if he   
   is intent on doing so, the President of the United States should not step to   
   the podium and denounce the act. By doing so, the President has surrendered   
   the moral high ground that we hold, or seek to attain -- depending ou where   
   one stands. Singularly, citizens might be idiots that do stupid things, but   
   collectively we should stand tall and strong against our enemy. Singular   
   acts of stupidity should not be addressed by the White House.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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