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  • From: "Nancy Petitt" <chestnutsunltd AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] STOP WAR DISCUSSION
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:26:05 -0500

I thought we had resolved this off topic issue... I am interested in farming issues... Thank you...
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt McCallum
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:52 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] STOP WAR DISCUSSION
 
This discussion group is about farm marketing - not the politics of
Iraq. Please keep the discussion focused on that. We don't need our mail
boxes full of e-mails about this.
Thank you.
Matt McCallum

Rick Williams wrote:
>
> Jill Taylor Bussiere wrote:
> > Yes.  And the question we must ask ourselves, as citizens of this
> > government...."If you had known about Hiroshima in advance, what would you
> > have done to stop it?"
>
> I was born a short time after the bombs were dropped that year in 1945. I
> can not imagine a better thing that could have been done by President
> Truman. It likely saved millions of people from certain death if they
> continued to follow the emperor as they claimed at the time to fight to the
> last person. It could easily been a very prolonged war. The nuclear weapon
> detonation allowed the emperor to "save face" as it then became possible to
> claim a religious sort of event due to the powerful light.
>
> The amount of destruction by one bomb was immense, but other cities were
> affected in a similar manner by saturation bombing of civilian targets so it
> was more of a psychological weapon rather than purely physically
> destructive.
>
> Even one death of an American is too much when it can be prevented by a
> nuclear weapon in a situation where an enemy attacked us first and did
> everything in their power to destroy the free world.
>
> On the other hand, for us to attack Iraq, without strong international
> support is foolish and has NO connection with WW2 with a truly evil nation
> such as Japan was then with their plans of world domination. Iraq is
> contained from even dominating their neighbors, much less outside of their
> immediate area.
>
> Even though I keep hearing how a majority of Americans support the
> President, why is that you never actually meet anyone who does? I certainly
> have not and I meet a LOT of people.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rick Williams
>
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