In These Times

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• • 21 Aug 05
  • 11:17 am

  I find it funny how people always forget to put into perspective what was perceived at the time. And I do realized that the American people at that time also had a perspective that to this day leads most to believe that bombing innocent people in Japan was justified, but But I ask this one question. If Iraqis drop some Atomic bombs on New York or LA today since America is invading and killing them, even thought we have soldiers over there who, also like the Japanese soldiers, were deceived into the war in the first place. So from all the …

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• • 23 Aug 05
  • 2:32 am

  This had nothing to do with the people who sacrifice themselves in the belief they were fighting for a cause - as our soldiers in Iraq have been fooled to believe. This was about the motivation for the fight in the first place. I agree that we must put things into perspective to the time and place - like so many blame the US for Vietnam, Korea, yet not a word of Communist China as the major troublemaker in all those troubled times. SO this is not an issue if I am young or old, more to do with what the …

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