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Skriven 2009-03-13 07:51:00 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Gaylen Hintz
Ärende: Re: Declaring war
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-=> Gaylen Hintz wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 GH> For reasons unknown to us Dave Drum said thus to Gaylen Hintz:

 GH> To be factually correct... only five declared wars. :)

 DD> Well, yeah. Words mean things y'know.

 GH>  Unhunh, learned that from Limbaugh did you? <g>

Nope. Limbaugh has nothing to teach me that I would care to learn. I learned it
from my Latin Master in Third Form Latin - back in 1956 ... along with all the
vene, vidi, velcro stuff (I came, I saw, I stuck around).  Bv)=

 DD> No matter that the media and politicians and other assorted
 DD> misguided people declare that "we are at war" - it ain't a war
 DD> until congress says it's a war. And congress hasn't done that
 DD> since 05 June 1942.

 GH>  Agreed on that point that there hasn't been a declared war sine 1942.
 GH> ;)

 DD> Lesse now - Korea was an UN Police Action, Vietnam was a
 DD> Treaty Obligation (said treaty being foisted on the US by the
 DD> Dulles brothers during the McCarthy era), etc. etc.

 GH>  Unhunh, funny how the UN gets us into those conflicts and we bear the
 GH> brunt both in men and women and financially as well eh?

Vietnam was NOT an UN deal. It was a SEATO thing. UN only came into it on the
fringes. Not to mention that the premise for escalation by Elby Jay was nearly
as fake as George III's WMDs.

 DD> And I realise that as my kid brother told me after coming back
 DD> to the world in the 60s ... an adviser (his "assignment")
 DD> laying dead in the jungle for a week smells a whole lot like a
 DD> real soldier in the same situation.

 GH>   Exactly , like the old saying goes, would a rose by any other name
 GH> smell the same?  You can call it what you want, a police action or
 GH> whatever it's still an act of war and that's my point. :)

 DD> I am glad for you that your son made it back from the sandbox.
 DD> It's a shame when anyone is killed or maimed for George III's
 DD> lies.

 GH>  I'm glad as well though he's due to go back this coming fall and I
 GH> wish him well.  One of the things that surprised me was when he came
 GH> back he told me not to listen to the main stream media as they had
 GH> their own axe to grind and though things aren't all that great over
 GH> there, they weren't as bad as many in the media report. <shrug>

Still isn't a walk in the park.

... Man who run in front of car get tired - Confuzius
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