| Re: The U.S. War on Journalists |
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Group: alt.war.vietnam · Group Profile
Date: May 15, 2008 20:04
"Colin Campbell" gmail.com (remove underscore)> wrote in message news:1rsp249q1il0b6evf0camltnu2gd5umqlf@4ax.com...> On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:57:13 -0700, "Billzz"
> starband.net> wrote:
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>>>My only wish is that people who hold the Geneva Convention dear, put a US
>>flag on their left arm and go into combat, and see how much it protects
>>them.
> Been there. Done that. Followed the laws of war.
Don't bullshit us - you followed your orders... period, end of story.
"Law" has no place in combat. Morals? Possibly. Conducting
one's self with a code of Honour? Possibly. Law? No way.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean
to stand by the president or any other public official, save
exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the
country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent
that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by
the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth,
whether about the president or anyone else"
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
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