RE: Take current politics off-list

[unclgene <unclgene@pacbell.net>]

Bye Bye. I will not allow unfair attacks to go unchallenged, so I'm gone.

Gene


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From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
[mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu]On Behalf Of swan
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:42 AM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Subject: Re: Take current politics off-list



----- Original Message -----
From: "swan" <swan@haysco.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Take current politics off-list


> Ed, we are talking about the lives .... or the deaths .... of maybe
> thousands of American fighting men. You are talking about someone who
might
> get miffed about a discussion of our dangerously flawed foreign policy. We
> have been there. We have seen those tough fighters come at us in waves. We
> know how cold it gets in that benighted country. When the fuel oil
shipments
> are cut off these belligerent people will probably decide to just take
what
> they need. And Bush is putting them into a very good position to make this
> decision .... and act on it. We have told our war stories. The Viet Nam
vets
> have their stories, just as the veterans of Grenada, Panama, and the
Persian
> Gulf have theirs. But no one seems to see the common thread running
through
> these stories about death and destruction. We fight, we die, but we don't
> win. The politicians think we can fight nice, tidy, push-button wars.
Sure,
> we can fight them, but we can't win them. Those yayhoos in Washington, who
> are little more than shoe shines and smiles, have such short memories.
> Veterans have longer ones. Some may bug out of this site, but I will have
to
> be driven out, just as I was driven out of the hills in North Korea. You
> have the heavy artillery. You have the target. Commence firing!
>
> Bob Dove
> 1st Raider Co. 1950
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:55 AM
> Subject: Take current politics off-list
>
>
> > To those concerned:
> >
> > I am damned tired of repeating: CURRENT POLITICS DO NOT BELONG ON THIS
> LIST
> > EVEN IF KOREA RELATED so stop now or be removed from the list.
> >
> > And as a matter of information, every time one of these current
political
> > discussion flame wars begin the list loses several members. Some come
back
> > after the mini-flame war is over but others never do.
> >
> > Ed (wearing his co-list owner hat)
> > Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> > Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> > Life member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> > Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com
> >
>
>
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