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Offline Toad

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« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2006, 08:48:01 PM »
Yes, it's worth the time it takes to read it.

Thanks, BGB.

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The four great plagues of the twentieth century-German nazism, Italian fascism, Japanese imperialism, and Soviet communism-were all ended either through outright fighting or the threat of war, the butcher's bill made worse by the delays in using force to thwart such murderous regimes in their infancies. The ancient Greeks kept their freedom only through heroics at Salamis and Plataea. A century and a half after hundreds of thousands of Persians had been defeated and routed, another-and very different-generation of Greeks could not keep a few thousand Macedonians from doing what Xerxes could not. There were thousands of resolute fighters like Themistocles in 480 B.C., but not so many by 350 B.C. who still believed in preventing a foreign invasion from the north, despite the similarly prescient warnings of Demosthenes.

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2006, 09:05:25 PM »
Toad! You can't post common sense in here, this is the O'Club!!!
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"I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or the air, and I plan on doing both, BEFORE the war is over."

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« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2006, 11:37:11 PM »
I was wanting to find this article..It had a really good response to a thread ..soem guy started about his School teacher...and how he said..WAR is not the Answer..It never is..Busch is satan..blah blah..


I thought this author articulated soem points extremly well..I need to link it to his thread


Then when I did a search on the internet..thsi guy has a HUGE collection of writtings

Wonder if Nashy poo read it yet?..maybe change his mind?
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Offline Debonair

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« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2006, 12:36:10 AM »
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Originally posted by BGBMAW
...Busch is satan...


PBR = hitler = milwaukie's best = teh_evil

natural light = OBL
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