[Vision2020] A "Peace" of Grass---featuring a GI in Iraq

[rvrcowboy]

So, are you saying you have no respect for our soldiers?  Or just no more
respect than you have for anyother person you consider to be comitting
criminal acts?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "rvrcowboy" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
Cc: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A "Peace" of Grass---featuring a GI in Iraq


> On 5/31/06, rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net> wrote:
>
> > I believe you are right; you have grown too cynical.  So much so that
you
> > would belittle the messenger just because you are pissed at the
originator.
>
> I belittled the messenger?
>
> > Just try to put the soldiers ahead of your politics for a little while.
>
> The soldiers are the instrument of politics, so that is a difficult
> separation to make.  Further, I consider such a separation dishonest,
> and I value honesty more than any other virtue.
>
> > At least give them the benefit of the doubt.  No one is asking you to
hope and pray that the charges are not true.  But you should.
>
> Soldiers are not a special class of people.  Of course I hope that
> this brutality did not occur, but at this time that seems a vain hope.
>  If details emerge that exonerate our soldiers, then their families
> will understandably smile and weep for joy, but it will not bring back
> the dead, and it is for the dead that I mourn, not the reputations of
> volunteers.
>