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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

RE: RE: The killings tell a story

No offense, but... Huh?

You say, Let me just start off by saying that the American gov't needs to pull out our troops and turn the desert into glass and be done with it. Terrorist breed terrorist it is and will always be that way that is how they live over there we have the power to stop it now and save the world a lot of pain in the years to come.

I hope you're just kidding in a sick, sort-of-shocking, confusing sort of way; I don't know you, so I have to ask. But if not, I'm just wondering: Have you ever met anyone whose descendents were from what you refer to as 'over there'? I assume that you work in a professional business situation, so I'll bet you have. Were they terrorists? Just wondering if you thought it was okay that we also kill some of those non-terrorists while turning the desert to glass.

Then you say, These Iraqi militants are also attacking the civilians that want freedom and the "American Dream", they feel as if these people are going against their beliefs and should be killed because they are dishonoring their religion and country.

Then you say, I say let them kill each other, less people we have to worry about.

And then, you say, We are teaching the Iraqi people to defend themselves so we can get the hell out of dodge and maybe there will be peace between these people that have been fighting for centuries.

So which is it? Do you think we should let them kill each other, turn the desert in to glass so we have less people to worry about, or teach the Iraqi people to defend themselves so we can get the hell out of Dodge? The first idea is what happened before the war, the second is nuts, and the third is what we're having to do because the Bush Administration decided to have this war in the first place.

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