[Rhodes22-list] Soap Boxes

[Steve]

Bill
Just try to overlook those dammmm democrats.  Thur
scientific analysis; it has been determined that they
are like they are due to a deformed gene.  May God
bless this country and overlook the democrats:-)
Steve

PS - You just got to love the above:-)

--- Bill Berner <bberner at optonline.net> wrote:
> I've been prompted to write by Brad's last couple of
> posts, especially
> "Rumsfeld apologizes"
> 
> I started in to write a suggestion that the list
> charter be modified to ask
> that members be refrain from soap boxing their
> political positions.
> 
> Then I realized that it would be asking for the
> group to curtail Freedom of
> Speech.
> 
> So, I'm left with a conundrum. 
> 
> I am personally sick and tired of the inflammatory
> conservative claptrap
> that shows up here.  It's isn't always the substance
> that irks me so much,
> but the belligerance, sarcasm and school yard
> bullying quality of so many of
> the posts. I have rarely seen any acknowledgement
> that issues can be
> multifaceted and complicated. 
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like all of the cannon
> fire comes from the
> starboard side, and I'm pretty tired of it.
> 
> Chances are that I'll have to quit the list to
> resolve the issue, not a
> choice I easily make.  There has been some good
> company here, and lot's of
> good information.  
> 
> Curious to see responses, then I'll shut up and make
> a decision.
> 
> 
> Bill Berner
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>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On
> Behalf Of brad haslett
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 12:37 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Rumsfeld Apologizes
> 
> May 26, 2003 
> Rumsfeld Apologizes for Hyping Saddam Threat 
> (2003-05-26) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald
> Rumsfeld apologized to Senate Democrats today for
> pre-war "hyping" of the threat posed by Saddam
> Hussein's regime. 
> 
> "I'm sorry Senators Biden, Rockefeller, Byrd,
> Roberts
> and others," said a contrite Mr. Rumsfeld. "We
> overestimated the threat posed by a lunatic
> dictator,
> who hated the U.S. and Israel, and who paid rewards
> to
> families of Palestinian terrorists. In an age when
> two
> of the world's tallest buildings can be brought down
> with tools used by the stockboy at K-Mart, we should
> have demanded more concrete evidence of exotic
> weapons
> of mass destruction. Saddam was helpless as a kitten
> up a tree."
> 
> Sen. Rockefeller, D-WV, said Congress must determine
> whether the administration "intentionally
> overestimated" Iraq's weapons program, or "just
> misread it. ... In either case it's a very bad
> outcome."
> 
> Mr. Rumsfeld agreed, "What an awful outcome. We
> deeply
> regret freeing the Iraqi people from a murderous
> gang
> of thugs masquerading in the United Nations as a
> representative republic. We're sorry that the Iraqi
> people have discovered thousands of graves of their
> Saddam-murdered relatives. It's none of our business
> if people want to live like that."
> 
> 
> 
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