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tcmedara said:

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I never offered an opinion of the honor of enemy soldiers, so I can't
comment on your speculation. If by Afghani soldier you are referring to a
Taliban conscript, no there's probably not much honor there. If you are
referring to the Taliban leadership, then yes, I would call them evil
people. I don't buy into the moral equivalence [censored]. There is good and
evil int he world. We might not always be the most virtuous, but I continue
to believe that we are the good guys. I think the objective record backs
that up....

After the events at the places listed below, the majority of the world
disagrees. These events are not too surprising in light of the decision
made by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft et al to (figuratively) use the
Geneva Conventions, UN Charter, and Bill of Rights as toilet paper.

Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo Bay)
Camp Justice (Diego Garcia)
Bagram Air Base prison camp (north of Kabul)
Abu Graib Prison (Baghdad)

--
Tom Sherman

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be
maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his
method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle" -
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

tcmedara said:

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Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US may have, I've
yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we are the good
guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at the alternatives.
On some issues choosing sides is the right thing to do....

Maybe you should look to the north and see the example set by Canada in
foreign policy in the post WW2 era. It puts the US to shame.

--
Tom Sherman

"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong,
to be put right." - Carl Schurz

tcmedara said:

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Unfortunately it appears his [Tillman's] death was the result of a friendly fire
incident...

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

--
Tom Sherman

tilman's buddies killed him.

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Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US may have, I've
yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we are the good
guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at the
alternatives.

Why do you have to do that? Who says there exist "the good guys"?

--
Benjamin Lewis

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of
oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover

Quoted message said:

Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US may have, I've
yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we are the good
guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at the
alternatives.

Why do you have to do that? Who says there exist "the good guys"?

--
Benjamin Lewis

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of
oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover

Benjamin Lewis said:

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Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US may have, I've
yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we are the good
guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at the
alternatives.

Why do you have to do that? Who says there exist "the good guys"?

It would be cool if they were a different color or something so we
could tell them apart.

--
"I recognize there are people who -- who don't like war."
George W. Bush (March 06, 2003)

Jim Smith said:

Benjamin Lewis said:

Why do you have to do that? Who says there exist "the good guys"?

It would be cool if they were a different color or something so we
could tell them apart.

Some people unfortunately believe that the "good guys" and "bad guys"
come color-coded.

--
Tom Sherman

Jim Smith said:

Benjamin Lewis said:

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Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US may have, I've
yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we are the good
guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at the
alternatives.

Why do you have to do that? Who says there exist "the good guys"?

It would be cool if they were a different color or something so we
could tell them apart.

You're supposed to use a smiley when you say creepy things like that. ;^)

Chalo Colina

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tcmedara said:

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Some things are worth believing in. Whatever warts the US

may have, I've

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yet to see anywhere better. Despite idiots like Chalo, we

are the good

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guys. If you don't believe that, then you have to look at

the alternatives.

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On some issues choosing sides is the right thing to do....

Maybe you should look to the north and see the example set by

Canada in

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foreign policy in the post WW2 era. It puts the US to shame.

Yes, but unlike the Americans, Canadians now live in perpetual
fear of terrorist attack! I was in Vancouver a few weeks ago, and
everyone was quivering in fear. Or maybe they were just cold.
It was raining chats and cheins. And what the hell is poutine
anyway?

Man, if I were a whack-job muslim terrorist, I would never screw
with the Canadians for fear of retribution by those crazy hockey
players. The Quebecois are pretty scary, too. Don't screw with
those guys or they'll kick your poutine. -- Jay Beattie.

tcmedara said:

Jim Smith said:

tcmedara said:

Unfortunately it appears his death was the result of a friendly fire
incident

Oh my goodness! how horrible! 🙂

I guess I'll just have to chalk that up to immaturity and youthful
ignorance. Either that or you're just a pinhead.

You left out the possibility that he may have an appreciation of poetic justice.

Chalo Colina