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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Pat Kraut must be an honor graduate from
Doug Wilson’s course on “Creative Authoring”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>See you at the polls.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are
sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are
different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Melynda
Huskey</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 01, 2004
10:28 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Pat Kraut; Vision 2020<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] My views</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Verdana'>Dear Pat,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>In an amazing coincidence, these aren't just *your* views,
but also the views (and exact words) of Professor Mathew Manweller, a political
science prof at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Central</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Even that rat-eater G. Gordon Liddy had the decency to
give the man credit for his words.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Melynda Huskey</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Pat Kraut<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Monday, November
01, 2004 10:15 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> vision2020<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Mike Cahill; Rich
Kraut; Keely Cahill; Grant Lawrence; Rebecca Cahill; Darren Kraut; Amy Kraut;
JOLEEN CAHILL; Kerry Cahill<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> [Vision2020] My
views<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Today we will vote in an election that truly matters.
Because <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is at<br>
a once in a generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the<br>
balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.<br>
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of its past and accepts the<br>
daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the<br>
consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history. If we, in a<br>
spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the<br>
message to the world and ourselves will be two-fold.<br>
First, we will reject the notion that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> can do big things. Once a<br>
nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon,<br>
we will announce to the world that bringing democracy to the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East</st1:place> is<br>
too big a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future<br>
presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges,<br>
preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has<br>
characterized other civilizations. We will tell the world that in other<br>
countries people can be gassed, raped, maimed, put into extreme poverty for<br>
the sake of the leaders 'homes' and we will not care or come to the rescue<br>
in any form. Oh, we might go to the UN and ask them to tell them to stop,<br>
but we won't really do anything to help. We will stay in our comfort and do<br>
nothing. The defeat of President Bush will send a chilling message to future<br>
presidents who may need to make difficult, yet unpopular decisions. <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region><br>
has always been a nation that rises to the demands of history regardless of<br>
the costs or appeal. If we turn away from that legacy, we turn away from who<br>
we are.<br>
Second, we inform every terrorist organization on the globe that the lesson<br>
of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was well learned. In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
we showed terrorist that you don't<br>
need to defeat <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
on the battlefield when you can defeat them in the<br>
newsroom. They learned that a wounded <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
can become a defeated <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br>
Twenty-four-hour news stations and daily tracking polls will do the heavy<br>
lifting, turning a cut into a fatal blow. Except that <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> is <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region> times<br>
10. The Election of John Kerry will serve notice to every terrorist in every<br>
cave that the soft underbelly of American power is the timidity of American<br>
voters. Terrorists will know that a steady stream of grizzly photos of CNN<br>
is all you need to break the will of the American people. Our own self-doubt<br>
will take it from there. Bin Laden will recognize that he can topple any<br>
American administration with out setting foot on the homeland.<br>
It is said that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
WWII generation is its 'greatest generation'. But<br>
my greatest fear is that is will become known as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s 'last generation'<br>
. Born in the bleakness of the Great Depression and hardened in the fire of<br>
WWII, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning<br>
of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these<br>
terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my<br>
generation.<br>
Too many citizens today mistake 'living in American' as 'being an
American'<br>
. But <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has always been more of an idea than a place. When you sign<br>
on, you do more than buy real estate. You accept a set of values and<br>
responsibilities.<br>
This November, each generation, which has been absent too long, must grasp<br>
the obligation that comes with being an American, or fade into the oblivion<br>
they may deserve. I believe that 100 years from now, or even sooner,<br>
historians will look back at the election of 2004 and see it as the decisive<br>
election of our century. Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as<br>
the moment <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
joined the ranks of ordinary nations; or they will<br>
describe it as the moment the prodigal sons and daughters, grandsons and<br>
grandaughters of the greatest generation accepted their burden as caretakers<br>
of the City on the Hill.<br>
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<br>
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so
long<br>
at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for
us."<br>
Helen Keller<br>
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