Yes Deb. This past Friday I watched a White House briefing by Ari Fletcher
(sp) to prominent news reporters. They kept badgering him (Ari) for
hypotheticals and speculatives. These reporters were so bent on getting a
"scoop". It was disgusting. I stated earlier about needing proof BUT a
line has to be drawn. This American does NOT want to hear what our secret
service and military intelligence is doing blabbed all over the TV and
newspapers. There will be a time and place for that.
I am not one for war. I also feel that something has to be done. I am in
a quandary over all what has happened and I think many Americans are. All
I know and feel is that this hideous disease of terrorism has to cease.
Many people (you, Kakki, Roberto, Vince and others) have expressed bits and
pieces of the way I feel. That is how the threads of who we are cross and
weave a nation.
I don't have ultimate answers .... I am just one voice.
Heather
At 06:53 AM 9/23/01 -0400, Deb Messling wrote:
>If you want the kind of proof demanded in a US court of law, you're not
>going to get it. For god's sake, nobody is going to get on CNN and give
>away all our intelligence, at least I hope they don't. TWe already have
>indictment against Bin Laden for previous acts of terrorism.
>
>I have never been pro-war, but I always knew I could never call myself
>pacifist, because I never had an answer to "what about Hitler?" If the
>alternative to war is acceptance of evil, then I would favor war.
>
>To suggest that those who favor war in this instance are self-indulgent
>martini-sippers is disgusting.
>
>Ric said:
> > that's what i think. i'm not calling for pacifism. i'm not
> > suggesting we
> > turn the other cheek. i'm saying i want proof. and until i see
> > it, i am not
> > going to sit from my cozy apartment with a view, sipping my martini and
> > calling for others to go out to die and kill people every bit as
> > innocent as
> > the ones who have died already, so i can feel vindicated and
> > avenged. when i
> > see that proof, then we can talk.
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>Deb Messling =^..^=
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