Replying to a message of WAYNE CHIRNSIDE to ALL:

 WC> Remember those heady days of yesteryear
 WC> when everything was so clear and our heros 
 WC> unsullied?

 WC> Things are so different today, or are they?

 WC> Ronald Reagan sent billions of dollars to the 
 WC> mujahadeen in Afghanistan to drive out the evil
 WC> occupying Soviet empire 

 WC> Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were our favored sons
 WC> back then and we were so innocent.

 WC> Today with America's help Al Qaeda flourishes,
 WC> Osama bin Laden is still fighting jihad
 WC> and only the nationality of those dying in the sand
 WC> differs.

 WC> Of course what's really important here is big oil,
 WC> the military industrial complex and corporate America
 WC> prospers.

 WC> President Eisenhower had something to say about this
 WC> strange state of affairs long ago but it seems no-one was
 WC> listening :-(

George Washington did, too.  Those comments have been ignored for about
a century.

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