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Skriven 2005-01-22 00:33:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: PROUD DEMOCRAT
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JB>TA>VH>I've always said when you read what someone writes, you're looking
JB>TA>VH>inside his head.  Some of these people have astonishing minds.

JB>TA>VH>One recently called Bush a "hypocrite" because "No christian
JB>TA>VH>president would ever send men to war."

JB>TA>VH>Washington
JB>TA>VH>Adams
JB>TA>VH>Jefferson
JB>TA>VH>Madison

JB>TA>VH>And so on, right down to ...

JB>TA>VH>Clinton

JB>TA>VH>EVERY President has used troops.  Were NONE of them Christians?

JB>TA>None of them were born-again Christians and all responded with
JB>TA>like force when we were attacked by those we then fought.

This is an excellant example of why those smarter than we, nominally
avoid answering evasive retorical question such as "Were NONE of them
Christian?". Anyone who hoped to be elected to public office in the
nominally Christian nation of earlier times we are addressing herein
would have to seen as a Christian. (The four earliest presidents
cited have generally been seen to have been Deists rather acknowledgers
of the Trinity of Christianity.) Given the historical examples of more
than one Pope having sent troops to fight many peoples in many areas of
our sad world; I can't condemn our later day leaders too harshly for
making the same Darwinian error. (I hope you may excuse my retorical
answer to your retorical quest 8-)

JB>Who attacked us when The Clinton started bombing all what used to
JB>be Yogoslovia ? This truly was a civil war and the left stood by
JB>and cheered.

The war in Yugoslovia started as a civil war but deteriorated into
a religious/racist war between the nominally Europeon-Christians and
the Muslims descendants of the earlier Moors who had conquered much of
southern europe. We made the mistake of supporting the North Atlantic
Treaty Group taking care of a problem that essentially was a problem
in their backyard we should have left for them to attend to (just as
we should now withdraw from the Israeli-Palestinian dispute that also
has religious overtones 8-(.

Clinton was our dictator in that instance but I don't recall the left
cheering our particpation (at least here in the Massachusetts-Liberial
Commonwealth 8-).

(Maybe our recent interferances in Old World religious defined disputes
has help cause the Irish to get over their arcane differences 8-)

Ciao, Ack.

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