Re: Why Iraq?

From: Les Cargill (lNOcargill_at_cfl.Arr.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:40:43 GMT

robert j. kolker wrote:

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> Les Cargill wrote:
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>> Nazi Germany was a Christian country in the same sense that
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> Nonsense. Germany was loaded with churches, both Catholic and
> Protestant. The laws of Germany both positive and traditional were
> crafted from a Christian perspective (prior to the Nazis). Germany was a
> Christian country in the sense that the majority of its people were
> Christian.
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> Did it make Germany a peaceful or virtous country. It surely did not.
>

If it was neither virtuous nor peaceful, then it was not Christian.

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>> William Tecumseh Sherman was a pacifist.
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> Tecumseh Sherman believed that a hard short war on the people of Georgia
> would lead to a shortening of the overall war.

Pfeh. Grant finished the war at Vicksburg. Nobody told the
Confederate rank and file ( although Lee, Davis and others
knew...)

> He was quite correct.
> Sherman's March tore the heart of the Confederacy. That and Sheridans
> destruction of the Shenendoah did the trick. The Rebs could no longer
> feed their army.
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> Bob Kolker

Sherman was the founder* of not only total internecine war without
constraint on rapine nor pillage, but the founder of the first
well documented genocide (on the Indians).

*In the U.S.

If he'd done that today, he'd be a war criminal.

He was also nuttier than a fruitcake.

That's a lot for one lifetime. 

--
Les Cargill

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