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Subject: Re: Why I am not going to the Graz WCCC - Nonsense, you will go!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 03:35:01 04/02/03

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On April 01, 2003 at 18:13:36, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On April 01, 2003 at 17:36:36, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>Bruce,
>>
>>I already addressed you in CTF but let me elaborate here also for the other
>>Americans.
>>
>>We have an illegal war by USA administration aggressors. Worldwide we see people
>>demonstrate against this US war. The US administration lets their army bomb
>>civilian targets, lets them murder civilians passing by peacefully.
>>You have no allowance by the UN, no nothing. What the USA is doing here is a
>>nationalist war to get access to the oil in IRAQ. Further the USA wants to
>>control IRAQ for the next decade. So 200 000 USA soldiers are ruling the
>>country. Your US president is a religious crusader since he is in the delusion
>>of doing all the war murder for GOD!
>
>We have someone sending me pictures of dead American troops, telling me that
>they are "good" Americans, and expressing satisfaction that these Americans have
>attained this state.  We also have another email showing an image of someone who
>is being tortured now, if past performance is any guide.
>
>I am an American.  If someone sends me this kind of material in email, I take it
>the hardest possible way.  I have a responsibility to the people in the pictures
>to do this.  Those people are in the armed service of my nation.  Two of them
>died for me, and one is in a dire situation.
>
>I feel the same regardless of the justness of the war.  I don't give a damn
>about the justness of the war, ** in this context **.
>
>There is essentially no other image that could have provoked this reaction.  A
>burning flag, I am in Graz.  Any amount of argument against the war, I am in
>Graz.  Personal insults, I am in Graz.  But this kind of stuff, there is no way
>that I am anywhere near Graz.
>
>A lesson of Vietnam is that ** you do not spit on an American enlisted man **.
>To those who would suggest that I try to understand the position of others
>involved in this, you need to understand *my* position on this.

I am in full agreement, certain lines can not be crossed.

Ed



>bruce



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