At 10:03 AM 2/7/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>> Saw a speech by, IIRC, Schroeder recently. He
>> mentioned (paraphrasing) that
>> Germany is opposed against war against Iraq, because
>> the German people,
>> having been in the center of two world wars, realise
>> that going to war is
>> never the solution to a problem.
>> Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
Was "war", quote, "the solution" to German occupation of your country in
World War II?
Indeed, would you have preferred that Franklin Roosevelt, Winston
Churchill, and the millions of Americans who sacrificed to liberate your
country "made love, not war?"
>OK. I want to call attention to this statement. Now,
>Jeroen, there's a striking fact about the German
>people "having been in the center of two world wars."
>Which is, of course, that they started them. The
>example, of course, disproves his argument. Going to
>war _was_ the solution to a problem - the problem of
>Nazism. We went to war. The problem was solved.
Amen.
JDG - Anybody enjoy getting the image of Jeroen making love on a daily
basis, Maru?
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