Man, I hate war. All war. The killing, the deaths . . .

[bigtree]

God bless our soldiers.

[Dangerman]

1. God bless our soldiers...

Except for the bastards who did the Abu Grahib tortures.

[bigtree]

2. yeah

I believe in justice.

I also believe in redemption.

[bigtree]

3. .

[Cleita]

4. I hear you. War is bad enough when you have to go to war

to defend your country, but to do to our military, their families and our country what the Bushlers are doing with this war, is unforgiveable

[OneBlueSky]

5. just as the world came together to ban slavery, so should we . . .

come together to ban war . . . certainly won't stop all warfare (just as the slavery ban didn't eliminate that practice), but it's a start . . . and we'll be better able to identify the real villians in the world, i.e. those who continue to wage war . . . wanna bet the US would be one of the bad guys? . ..

[bigtree]

6. "How say you, war or not?"

"Not war, if possible, O king," I said,"lest from the abuse of war,
The desecrated shrine, the trampled year,
The smoldering homestead, and the household flower
Torn from the lintel-all the common wrong-
And smoke go up thro' which I loom to her
Three times a monster: now she lightens scorn
At him that mars her plan, but then would hate
(And every voice she talk'd with ratify it,
And every face she look'd on justify it)
The general foe. More soluable is this knot,
By gentleness than war. I want her love.
What were I nigher this altho' we dash'd
Your cities into shards and catapults,
She would not love;- or brought her chain'd, a slave,
The lifting of whose eyelash is my lord,
Not ever would she love; but brooding turn
The book of scorn, till all my fitting chance
Were caught within the record of her wrongs,
And crush'd to death: and rather, Sire, than this
I would the old God of war himself were dead,
Forgotten, rustling on his iron hills,
Rotting on some wild shore with ribs of wreck,
Or like an old-world mammoth bulk'd in ice, Not to be molten out."

Excerpt from, "The Princess: A Medley" by, Alfred Tennyson