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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

All true, Drew.

As it is also true that we told Sadaam Hussein we were going to  
invade. How many Iraqis have we slaughtered? How many Americans have  
we sacrificed? By your standards, and I agree with them, we, too, are  
criminals. I am still waiting for judgement.

Atonement was the wrong word. I would rather say we have much to learn.


On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:04 PM, DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

> Hitler announced his intentions to take back the former German  
> territories
> long before doing so, he announced his hatred for the Jewish race  
> before trying
> to exterminate them, and slavery was a
> legal enterprise, plenty of warning there too. Does that make it all  
> right
> then? Does that make hitler and
> the British honorable for their actions in Europe and bringing  
> slaves to  the
> Americas? Nope. I have nothing
> to atone for to Bin Laden. Serial killers have sent warnings before  
> their
> murders, but that does not make them right for following through in  
> their
> actions. Whether you believe he was right in doing so or not, Bin  
> Laden  announced
> and carried out crimes including mass murder. When my children try  
> to  use the
> excuse with me that so and so did something first, I never buy the   
> excuse.
> They are still responsible for their actions. Bin Laden is a  
> criminal,  no
> matter what his excuses are.