Ross Cassell -> Bob Klahn wrote:
 RC> Hello Bob!

 RC> 18 Jun 08 13:16, you wrote to me:


 RC> The one thing you must know about me, above all else, which I would hope
 RC> transcends any ideological difference, is when I debate anything with
 RC> anyone, I do not allow myself to be restrained within some imaginary
 RC> framework my opponent might construct.

 RC> Some dont, some do, and you do.

 RC> If I want to stray slightly off the path for a moment, either to relate
 RC> a story, some information or attempt to make a point, then I shall,
 RC> which is what I tried to do below, and I even prefaced is with
"[aside]".

 RC> I was fooolish to think you would have seen this and understood, guess I
 RC> cant be right all the time.

People like Klahn can't hold a conversation dealing with more than one
subject at a time. He is dull in the truest sense of the word.

 BK>>  Yeah, only my side didn't get hundreds of thousands killed in
 BK>>  Iraq, 4000+ of them Americans.

The above sentiment might warm the cockles of my heart if I, for one second
believed that Klahn cared one whit for our dead soldiers and/or dead
Iraqis. You and I and all intelligent people know, though, that they
weren't even *PEOPLE* to Klahn, he uses them as a weapon to attack people
who disagree with his ideology.

 RC> No, Johnsons escalation, got 10's of thousands of our boys killed in
 RC> Vietnam.

and do we even know how many South Vietnamese civilians were lost because
of Johnson's escalation? Probably as many if not more than the supposed
"hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq".

 RC> I am not going to get into a who started Vietnam debate with you other
 RC> than to say that LBJ using a lie (read: Tonkin) flung our military full
 RC> bore into Vietnam, when he could have elected to have left things as
 RC> they were or even reversed the policy, actions and any involvement set
 RC> in place by those that preceeded both him and JFK.

 RC> So if you want to cry over spilt milk, by all means, lets.

 RC>>> I had no reason to enlist, I presume neither did Ed.

 BK>>  IOW, because there was no draft. Which negates any arguement you
 BK>>  had about me enlisting because of the draft.

 RC> I had no issue with you enlisting, I think it was obvious as to why so
 RC> that you had more choice as to what you wanted to do for the military.

That man is psychotic; how does whether you enlisted or not negate anything
about him enlisting to avoid being drafted into the Marines or Army?
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