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Topic: What would you do with this guy?
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Max
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posted 03-27-2003 12:32 PM
    
Picked this up off another board I read:A British man fighting for Saddam Hussein has surrendered to the Desert Rats in Iraq. The man, in his mid-20s, told the Irish Guards he was from Manchester and wanted to return home - to claim benefits, the Guards claimed. Born in Iraq, the unidentified prisoner, who speaks in a Mancunian accent, is currently being held in a prisoner of war camp in the south of the country. A source within the Irish Guards said: "He told us he wanted to fight for the Iraqis because he didn't agree with what Britain and America are doing. "After handing himself over, he began taunting some of the soldiers that he would soon be back in Britain enjoying state benefits even though he had a wish to fight against our people." It is understood the man, whose family are still in England, joined a militia group through relatives in the Basra area. -------------------- (_*_)
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Oicu812
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posted 03-27-2003 01:42 PM
My favorite author said it best, so I will quote him: quote:
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert A. Heinlein
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Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offence against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons inside city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.Robert A. Heinlein
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine 'that violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.Robert A. Heinlein
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Oicu812
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posted 03-27-2003 03:31 PM
That is the source of the last quote, I believe. They fit SO well with the OP!! O -------------------- ==============
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