Response to David
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From: David
To: margaret@margaretcho.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:24 PM
Subject: The prisoner abuse
Hello,
I am a 20 year Marine. I am not sure my views make me a Freeper or not, I just hope you get my mail. First of all I cannot agree with you more about the prisoners and their treatment. No matter what they did or how they were captured we as Americans cannot lower ourselves to this conduct. I honestly feel that having Army reserves running these detention centers is the cause. There is an apparent lack of leadership here and should be corrected soon.
What I disagree with you on is your opinions on, not only this war, but war in general. What I find sad is that there are people like you who have this view that we should all just get along. Yes its sad to say but that is just not going to happen. There is a portion of the human race that is evil. We have to deal with that evil. Do you honestly feel that certain governments in history could have understood anything other than force? Look at your own heritage in the Korean peninsula. It was dominated and brutalized by Chinese and the Japanese for years. If not for the United States it would [be] one Korea under Kim and not just the north. As for this war we are conducting now. I disagree with you, we cannot cut and run. We are in for the long haul and rightly so. The only mistake we made in the past was in 1991 by not finishing the job then. These terrorist[s] exist all over the world and we have to take the fight to them. We have seen what happens when we lay back and try to love them. Somehow we do not get the love back.
Well I hope you get this. I would love to see your response and talk to you more. I value the human race and life. In fact I love life. I spent 20 years of my life defending it. And just as a side note. I have supported gays in the military.
Thanks
Dave
My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs. Killing only begets more killing. Someone at some point has to be the bigger person, and just turn around and go home. It is surrender, but that isn’t the coward’s way. And if it were, who gives a shit? I am a coward then, but fuck, I am still alive. I can still use my legs and get the fuck out of here.
My own heritage from the Korean peninsula doesn’t sway me one bit. I am not really sure where the Korean peninsula was, and why there was a war there, and what side we were on and why my ancestry should have anything to do with my belief system today. I am super American. I’ve even got a flag. I sleep wrapped up in it “The Who - The Kids Are Alright” style. I love America. I am not moving. It’s cool. I just don’t like seeing dead people. I am just like that kid in “The Sixth Sense.” I see dead people, and I don’t like it.
Look at how every single action this administration has taken in the last four years has to be investigated. That should be proof enough that we need to have an early election. Get this crazy shit over with. Stop the fantasy that we need to be defending freedom, because we don’t even have freedom in our own country yet.
What right do we have to appoint ourselves the freedom fighters of the world? If we are so good at it, where it at? I don’t see no gay people getting married. I don’t see innocent people in jail getting released. I don’t see freedom of speech, nor do I see health care reform, or equal rights for anyone. All I see, that’s right, is dead people and ads for Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Enzyte.
So many drugs for those unable to get it up and keep it up. I am super glad about your four hour erection, but I was wondering, where is that cure for AIDS? Yeah, AIDS. Remember that? We were kind of needing a cure, like really, about more than twenty years ago. All this research money has been spent on keeping Bob Dole going like the Energizer Bunny. How is this helping us with the problem that there are entirely too many dead people, that we are making more every day.
And our government, who we are bound to by the fact that we elected them (if we even did) does not seem to care one bit at all. They are unfazed by any amount of death, destruction, loss, tragedy, travesty. They call these acts “abhorrent,” but have yet to find the words to apologize. I know that Cheney is up in the White House with a Thesaurus, so that George W. Bush will be able to learn himself one new word a day to describe how bad the shit is, but really, all he needs is “sorry.” Why is that so hard?
Why is all this so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?