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 > > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > > Get the list FAQ at: http://www.marketfarming.net/mflistfaq.htm _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming
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