QUOTE (swiss74 @ May 27, 2007 - 11:46 AM)

Can we keep politics and Rosie off this board. I am neither a Republican or a Democrat and in all truthfullness a GDI. Neither party membership in my opinion is all that wonderful. Both have made monumental mistakes when they were in power. I am sure you will have to agree with me on that. Just think back. As for Rosie, I like her as a comedian but I feel none of the celebrities should be using their position to further their political views. I inherently believe in the American people and their right to choose after thinking a situation through and then going to vote their conscience when it comes down to it. Maybe my position is naive but that is just how I see it. I won't speak to the war but I will speak to the middle east, I feel that as long as the population over there cling to their tribal views there will never be peace there. It is a problem that we here faced in the United States many years ago. Ex: first some of the colonists thought of themselves as Purtains, then they after a period of time became the people of Massachusetts, and then they became part of a new Country, the United States. It is an evolutionary process. Until that happens over there we will see flare ups that undermind the safety of the rest of the world. The Christians and the Muslims have been going at it since the Crusades. Nothing is new under the sun. We went through the hostage debacle over there during the Carter Administration. We had the FIRST amnesty for illegal aliens under Reagan, we were told it would never happen again. We had Watergate under Nixon. We had Monica under Clinton? We had Viet Nam under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Do you remember the Korean Military Action under Truman back in the 50's? Or do you remember the Second World War under the Roosevelt and Truman watchs? Some still believe Roosevelt let the bombing of Hawaii happen because he knew we would be in the war sooner or later and that was his excuse to get us in on December 7, 1941. The lend lease program with Britain could not go on forever. There were many who felt we should not become involved in WW2. We have had all presidents avoiding dealing with our borders. Need I go on? In my humble opinion if you put them all in a brown paper bag and shook them up they all would be equal. Here now I have been reduced to citing exmples of our political errors on both sides of the political isle.
Do any of you remember the rationing during the Second World War? Do you remember sending food to England during WW2. Do you remember women using eye brow pencil to draw seam lines on the backs of their legs because all the nylon went to making parachutes? Do you remember women working in heavy industry to produce the war machine for the WW2? Do you remember Rosie the Riveter? Do you remember the gas rationing during the war? Do you remember Victory Gardens?
Most of you are too young to remember two thirds of the situations I have stated here but they happened. To me Viet Nam was the saddest because of what some of the US population did when the men returned from Viet Nam. You want a political disgrace to talk about that was it. What was done to returning soldiers was terrible. That was our biggest black eye ever.
Most of us that grew up during those times learned one lesson and that was to support the troops and the office of the president. We may have dissagreed with some of the policies but we held fast to supporting our troops.
WHEW SWISS
SURE GLAD YOU LEFT POLITICS OUT LOL
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
I DO REMEMBER ALOT OF THE STUFF YOU SPEAK OF
I THINK THE BOTTOM LINE TO ANY WAR
IS HOW NOT TO START THEM
ONE THING THAT CAN BE HELD CULPRIT
IS A SIMPLE MISUNDERSTANDING
I DO NOTICE THINGS ABOUT THE CURRENT WAR
AND HAVE FORMED MANY CONCLUSIONS ABOUT IT
WON'T GO INTO IT AS THEY ARE MY CONCLUSIONS
BUT ASK YOURSELF THIS
WHY DOES TRAGEDY FOLLOW
AFTER A MAJOR DROP IN THE PRESIDENTS APPROVAL RATING?
EXAMPLES ARE EASY TO FIND
WETHER THEY ARE COINCIDENCE OR NOT
SAD THING IS
THE CURRENT SITUATION HAS TURNED INTO A VIETNAM SITUATION
THERE ISN'T A CLEAR GOAL BUT ONE
OIL AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE SUPPLY
THE REALITY IS
OUR TROOPS CANNOT PULL OUT NOW
UNLESS THERE IS A CHANGE IN WHAT I MIGHT CALL "VALUES"
WAR IS WAR
YOU CANNOT PRESERVE WHAT MUST BE DESTROYED
AND
POLITICIANS. CELEBS HAVE NO BUSINESS STICKING THIER NOSES INTO IT
JMO
OK LOOKS LIKE MY TIME ON THE O'L SOAPBOX IS OVER FOR NOW
WILLING TO CONTINUE IF ANYONE WISHES
BUT LET'S KEEP THIS IN MIND
LIFE IS TOO SHORT..........
TAKE CARE OVER THERE
ALOHA
HAVE FUN