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Skriven 2004-11-28 12:55:00 av RICHARD HELM (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av BJÖRN FORSSTRÖM
Ärende: Word From the Front
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On 27 Nov 10, BJöRN FORSSTRöM wrote to RICHARD HELM:
on the subject: Word From the Front 


 RH>> There are news stories from military hospitals that make the news
 RH>> here on
 RH>> a regular basis.  Normally they are presented as local interest and 
 RH>> shown
 RH>> in the communities where those soldiers live.

 BF> Ok.

Actually it's not "Ok."  You've made many comments about the United States
and what happens here without knowing truths.  Again, that reflects your
socialist mentality regusrding this issue.

 BF>>> I'm **NOT**, say not condemming USA, only that guy who shot an
 BF>>> injured, unarmed prisoner.

 RH>> Read what you've written.  You're using one Marine's actions to class
 RH>> everyone and while doing it, you make assumptions that don't fit the 
 RH>> known
 RH>> facts.

 BF> What *are* the facts then besides that on the tape?

The "prisoner" wasn't a prisoner as far as that Marine knew.  There is a
protocol for identifying prisoners that wasn't followed BEFORE that Marine
entered the building.  Those insurgents were left, unguarded, by an earlier
unit that passed through and the Marines had still received fire from enemy
forces in the area.  

 BF>>> And why would Saddam have done that. We haven't had any quarrels
 BF>>> with him.

 RH>> Hell no, you and your fellow countrymen reap the benefits Saddam's 
 RH>> crimes.

 BF> And what are these benefits?

 BF>>> At least we live in a democrasy.

 RH>> Sort of.  And at best only for about the last 30 years.

 BF> And you know that from.......?

Reading a little about your country's history.  Until about 1974 your king
was the head of state with the powers to appoint the various ministers. 
Since your king isn't an elected position, you didn't have a democracy. 
Another error in your comments here is that your country's government isn't
older than the United States as you have claimed.  Your Constitution only
dates back to 1809, several years AFTER our Constitution.

Even now you have a king with some, no matter how little, powers.  Again,
since the king isn't elected, you can't have a true democracy.  You and
your countymen still pay homage to a king, an unelected official.  You do
that with your tax dollars.  Hardly a democratic process.

Take some time to learn your OWN history and how your own country operates
before you try to tell me how mine works.  It's not all that hard to do. 

Richard 
 rlhelm@radiks.net
 http://rlhelm.home.radiks.net

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