Posted by sky on 05/04/06 00:00

"Robin" <robinandtami@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in
news:nUa6g.9817$Sl4.715@bignews1.bellsouth.net:

>
> "sky" <sky@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns97B79D1F73D6Csky@207.115.17.102...
>> "Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote in
>> news:1146592690.161607.103050@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>>
>>> Fred Liken wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's Rice's opinion... Do you agree with everything Rice says?
>>>> What's the point of you posting that link?
>>>
>>> Actually that's probably the only thing Rice and I have ever agreed
>>> on. The point is to show you that my opinion is quite a common one.
>>> Doing the national anthem in Spanish does no harm and if it makes
>>> people feel good, why not?
>>>
>>> - Jordan
>>>
>> Perhaps some of us who fought in wars and lost our leg for this
>> country may
>> see it differently
>
> Fighting and losing your leg, though unfortunate; does not make you
> right.
>
> Did you fight for the fabric that makes the flag and the lyrics that
> make up the Star Spangled Banner? Or did you fight to defend the
> actual freedoms and the actual ideals that they represent?
>
> If you fought for the actual freedoms and ideals, then you would
> recognize that these people have every right to redo the Star Spangled
> Banner as they see fit.
>
> If you fought merely for the fabric and the lyrics, then you may be
> like the marine I saw yesterday who had the spare tire cover on his
> Jeep custom airbrushed with a mushroom cloud and the words "nuke all
> the ragheads." I bet if you translate that into Kurdish it sounds a
> lot like "death to all infidels."
>
>
>
I will not argue with a sick mind. I fought for this country and it's
people not a bunch of illegal people who are breaking the very laws I
fought to protect.

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