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![]() "Fred the Red Shirt" wrote in message m... He went to Congress, stood before the US Senate and said that you and he had been guilty of war crimes. That you had all committed atrocities. That you were rapists, baby-killers and violators of the Geneva convention. Would he be exhibiting "honesty to admit it"? What if everything he said was true? Would that not be honest and courageous? Can you show that Kerry, ever LITERALLY accused every soldier in Vietnam of committing war crimes? Are you the only person allowed to use analogies. Or are you misrepresenting general statements and statements of general moral responsibility? In my opinon we Americans are collectively responsible, whether for good or ill, for the invasion of Iraq. Would you take that to be an accusation that you LITERALLY commited the crimes at Abu Ghraib? Consider the following letter written On 4 Aug 1863, From William Tecumseh Sherman wrote, to John Rawlins, which read in part: "The amount of burning, stealing, and plundering done by our army makes me ashamed of it. I would quit the service if I could, because I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism. I have endeavored to repress this class of crime, but you know how difficult it is to fix the guilt among the great mass of all army. In this case I caught the man in the act. He is acquitted because his superior officer ordered it. The superior officer is acquitted because, I suppose, he had not set the fire with his own hands and thus you and I and every commander must go through the war justly chargeable with crimes at which we blush. Now, after looking up to see what sorts of things Kerry REALLY said, and the context in which he said them, would you not consider that context to be much the same as General Sherman's remarks? It is noteworthy that certain neocons (in this context, neo-confederates) have taken the last sentence of that paragraph out of its proper context, and misatributed it to a a letter from Sherman to Grant, to prove that Sherman was an admitted war-criminal. Good analogy, Fred. George Z. |
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