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   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   Mrs. Obama, the First Lady, is campaigning with Captain Khan's father   
        who is running a business of procuring visas for   
            foreigners who want to come and live in America.   
      
   Now they are campaigning on behalf of Lady Hillary -   
       in the battleground state of North Carolina.   
      
   While the Missus told the audience that "her voice was needed   
         ... `more than ever'",   
         Captain Khan's dad complained about a very "cruel" Trump   
                 who is opposing Hillary who has a war plan for Syria   
                     and an email server problem.   
      
   Methinks what's really cruel is:   
      
     1) The war of aggression against Iraq that has made Hundreds of   
        thousands, if not millions, of Iraqis bitter by losing one or   
        more of their loved ones from the Iraq War.   
      
        If Captain Khan's parents' feeling can be hurt every time they   
        think about their son's death, which I think is eminently   
        reasonable, then the millions of Iraqis who have lost loved ones   
        despite the fact that they did nothing to warrant the war but   
        only because the warmongers like George Bush, Condi Rice,   
        Dick Cheney, John McCain, Hillary Clinton and other Washington   
        politicians wanted it.   
      
        What these warmongers did to the Iraqi people was really, really   
        cruel!   
      
     2) The destruction of the once vibrant and self-sufficient country   
        of Iraq!  That is really cruel!   
      
     3) To call American soldiers who died absolutely in vain "heroes"   
        when their mothers had only wanted them to come home, not as   
        heroes but as their real, breathing and talking sons.   
      
        The systemic distortion of reality in order to sustain an immoral   
        and unreasonable war on behalf of the powers-that-be is cruel.   
      
        When there was not a fiber of necessity to send Captain Khan to   
        Iraq to face a nation of angry people who were reacting to our   
        unjust invasion and working to fight back what was rightly theirs   
        in the first place was not a service to our country or anybody's.   
      
        So, how can one justify their sacrifice?  They sacrificed in   
        vain.  Their blood-thirsty government put them in harm's way; and   
        so they died.   
      
        On the other hand, while one might debate whether Trump would've   
        worked as hard to invade Iraq as George Bush and his cohorts did   
        (who had worked from day one of his term as president) it is not   
        a cruel act for Trump to claim that his stance on Iraq would mean   
        that Captain Khan would've still been alive today.   
      
        It is in fact a strong message for peace for Trump or anyone else   
        to remind the American people the cost of the stupid and immoral   
        Iraq War.   
      
        And it is in fact the antithesis of a cruel act to use this   
        election cycle, as in others, to keep reminding us the evil and   
        cruelty of a regime-change war - for as long as candidates are   
        still advocating more such wars against other countries, ones   
        which are known to have even better defense than Iraq and, of   
        course, Afghanistan.   
      
     4) For Captain Khan's dad to keep pimping himself and especially his   
        wife for Hillary, who is unapologetic about her active roles in   
        supporting the Iraq War and in directing the regime change wars   
        in Libya and Syria.   
      
        By pimping his family for a warmonger who is seen as a "shoe-in"   
        as our next president, he is playing a direct role in the death   
        of every person in the world when Hillary expands the war in   
        Syria.   
      
        And this "war-hero"'s dad was clearly cruel to his wife with his   
        recurrent pimping, given the fact that the mother had opened her   
        heart to the media (after the Democratic National Convention) by   
        retelling what she told her son more than ten years ago that she   
        wanted him to come back "not as a hero but as my son".   
      
     5) For the MSM which is in collusion with the Establishment to boost   
        up Captain Khan's dad while suppressing the words of his mother.   
      
        It is a collaboration I see as part of a systematic suppression   
        of the anti-war sentiment that is growing in this country (and in   
        the West).   
      
     6) For the American people to choose Hillary Clinton who has made a   
        promise to oppose Putin - at the expense of many more women and   
        children in Syria and at risks of more wars, more deaths, and   
        more destruction than we have seen before.  Now in the eyes of   
        Syria's women and children, we Americans are really pretty cruel!   
      
   I don't need to talk about the Missus who is again going very low and   
   who never seems to remember what she has said before.  She is in fact   
   pimping votes for a still poorer America and a future of planet Gaia   
   further destroyed.   
      
   lo yeeOn   
      
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   http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37790832   
      
   Republican Donald Trump has been criticised by the family of a dead US   
   soldier after saying as president he would have kept him alive.   
      
   "Had I been president, Captain Khan would be alive today. We wouldn't   
   have been in this horrible, horrible mistake, the war in Iraq," he   
   said.   
      
   The soldier's father, Khizr Khan, said it was a "cruel" remark.   
      
   He is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, who is making her first   
   appearance with First Lady Michelle Obama.   
      
   The two shared a stage at Winston-Salem in North Carolina.   
      
   Introducing Mrs Obama, the former first lady said her voice was needed   
   in this election "more than ever".   
      
   [The Missus is so self-absorbed!!!]   
      
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