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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 07:27 PM
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Robert F. Kennedy on another US war:
"Do we have the right here in the United States to say that we're going to kill tens of thousands, make millions of people, as we have ... refugees, kill women and children? ... I very seriously question if we have that right...Those of us who stay here in the United States, we must feel it when we use napalm, when a village is destroyed and citizens are killed. This is also our responsibility ...the picture last week of a paratrooper holding a rifle to a woman's head, it must trouble us more than it does....

"We love our country for what it can be and the justice it stands for and what we're going to mean to the next generation. It's not just the land, it's not just the mountains. It is what this country stands for. And that is what I think is being seriously undermined in Vietnam."
- RFK on Face the Nation, in the fall of 1967
(Robert Kennedy & His Times; Schesinger; pg 885)

What does Robert Kennedy mean to this generation? How do we apply his message to our situation today? How far are we willing to go?
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-19-04 07:34 PM
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1. It is, to me, so very sad
Edited on Sat Jun-19-04 07:38 PM by Marianne
Jennings and Jeffers has a call in guy on who insists that what Bush has said about Saddam and all the lies are absolutely true. He is typical fearful, little penised man.

It is so sad. So sad, so sad that Bush murdered ten thousands people with these lies and we, as a country, have people who still believe it was a just invasion.

Indeed,it is so sad that we even must worry that he will be elected for another four years.

It is so very sad--so very sad :cry:

We have people here in this countrym, who are barbarians without one scintilla of honor. They are, it seems just uneducated and ignorant.

They are the Bush supporters--it is all so entangled with business, corporations, enormous and even obscene wealth and the pursuit of the same, even though it would not make one bit of difference in the life of anyone--say Cheney, for instance;. His wealth, though, may have given him a few more years on his life, whereas many probably would not have access to the same life saving procedures.

It is so sad.
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