[Rhodes22-list] Soap Boxes

[Steve Alm]

You see, Bill?  This is exactly what I'm talking about...the repubs don't
even know how to proof-read.  8-)
Slim

On 5/27/03 2:27 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 191 South Broadway
>> Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
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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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