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2004-10-10 Terror Networks & Islam

Letter and Story From my Nephew in Bagdad

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Posted by RHOACO 2004-10-10 3:38:11 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 THANK YOU, RUSTY.

And thank you, too, Robert.

May I suggest that you repost this after midnight so more people can read it tomorrow?

Fred, Steve, et al., could you arrange that?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-09 11:25:38 PM|| 2004-10-09 11:25:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Done.

Posted by Fred 2004-10-10 12:05:52 AM|| 2004-10-10 12:05:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, Fred.

You're a mensch.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 12:07:39 AM|| 2004-10-10 12:07:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought the word "mensch" was an insult?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-10 12:17:35 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-10 12:17:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Good lord, Phil, where did you get that notion?

No, "mensch" is a great compliment.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-10 12:35:34 AM|| 2004-10-10 12:35:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you Rusty, and Rob. Great stuff.

Posted by Verlaine 2004-10-10 1:02:27 AM|| 2004-10-10 1:02:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Fred/Mods - please mask that email of the soldier - otherwise spam harvest bots will snap it up.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-10 1:35:12 AM|| 2004-10-10 1:35:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 RE:"I know it happens....We hope to change that."

Here is the greatest loss for the Democratic Party in 2004. There are tens of thousands of new leaders being made in Iraq as our fathers and grandfathers who experienced WWII and came home and decided to make a difference in their community and country. They became the political leadership in our towns, our states, and in our nation. They dedicated themselves to making this a better new world after see the ruin of the old world. They took a nation on par with may others in the world and built an economy and society that now stands way above all others. Still a way from perfection, but damn closer than anyone else. Now these young men and women are participating in building a country and improving the lot of the common man. The pride they have in doing this work will live with them for the rest of their lives. It is a positive construction force that can be repeated once these young people return their nation. Do you really think in any rational manner that the party that sold its soul to the anti-American left and denounces the work of these heros has the slightest chance to add their names to their rolls in future elections? These will be the next generation of names you will start to see on our ballots, people who know what real poverty is, what real opportunity is, and how to make a difference. And they will not be part of the party that betrays them today.

Posted by Don 2004-10-10 8:41:54 AM|| 2004-10-10 8:41:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Great story - he's right, we don't hear anywhere near enough of this side of the conflict.

From my LiveDictionary plugin in Safari:

mensch, mensh:
a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-10-10 8:54:20 AM|| 2004-10-10 8:54:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 These will be the next generation of names you will start to see on our ballots, people who know what real poverty is, what real opportunity is, and how to make a difference. And they will not be part of the party that betrays them today.

True men and women of the people. In just four years veterans of the Iraqi War will be a badge of honor, even more so when Kerry's shameing words against what ourand Iraq's people are doing are turned back on him. These people, the Iraqis and Americans are truley winning the peace.

And guess what? They are doing it without a plan other than to enable liberty for all Iraqis.

Funny how that works.

And that phrase is a perfect counter to Kerry's incessant change that the president went to war without a plan toi win the pleace. Simply say: We have a plan and we are implementing it. Liberty justice for all Iraqis. Give that to them and let them make their own way.

Dubya's plan for Winning the Peace:

Liberty and Justice for All

Posted by badanov 2004-10-10 11:07:47 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-10-10 11:07:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Barbara: I don't know. I must have gotten things mixed up somewhere.

Don: while some 18 year old kids are joining the army and being exposed to foreign cultures while fighting a war that's virtually one part combat and two parts civil affairs, a lot of kids going to "top colleges" instead are going to be getting their educations in an environment more parochial than 1940's rural Mississippi.

I don't know if anyone's thought through the long-term effects of that, but I hope it manages to shake things up a bit.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-10 12:25:11 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-10 12:25:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 th9ose 18 year old kids in that environment are getting a better education about life though phil. Unlike those kids going too the good colleges those kids in afghanistan and I raq are helping other ppl and not throwing keggers on the weekend.

Posted by smokeysinse 2004-10-10 4:34:47 PM|| 2004-10-10 4:34:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Smokey, I think you misread me.

It's the "top colleges" I'm referring to as the parochial environment.

The kids in the army are going to have a "wider" education in many ways than the ones who are going to ivy league schools and getting lectured by postmodernist idiot-savants about how lousy western civilization is. That's what I was trying to say.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-10 6:17:33 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-10 6:17:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Thanks Rusty for this story. I am truly sorry your friend and his family were murdered. 9/11 and beheading type evil. There is only one thing to do and that is to root out the evil wherever it is.

Posted by John Q (Citizen) aka John QC aka JQC 2004-10-10 6:58:55 PM|| 2004-10-10 6:58:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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