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Peace Department would bolster nation's image
The Daily Breeze ^ | August 13, 2004 | Walter Cronkite

Posted on 08/13/2004 3:25:03 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver

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To: CholeraJoe
My daughter has instructions that if I ever get this senile, she is to buy me a ticket to Amsterdam for the Kevorkian treatment.

That's strange, I thought most folks went to Amsterdam for the Cheech and Chong treatment. ;-)

41 posted on 08/13/2004 3:56:16 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Conservative, Republican, Raider Fan)
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To: Ichneumon

I don't see "Kill terrorists before they kill you" on that poster.


42 posted on 08/13/2004 4:05:25 PM PDT by hattend (I'm on the Mark Steyn Ping List! I'm somebody!)
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To: DumpsterDiver
Kumbayaa....


43 posted on 08/13/2004 4:11:24 PM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: Saundra Duffy; DumpsterDiver

Ditto. I've forgotten the Barf Alert tag before. This thread qualifies.


44 posted on 08/13/2004 4:17:21 PM PDT by Horatio Gates
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To: DumpsterDiver

45 posted on 08/13/2004 4:18:32 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Leftists - not even remotely approaching the intellectual firepower of toejam.©)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Memo to Chronicstupe, there already is this "wonderful" organization which constantly preaches appeasement, making it the de facto "Peace Department." It is called the "US Department of State!"


46 posted on 08/13/2004 4:22:33 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Ole Wally is a perfect example of why the university of Texas at Austin is overrated....in more than just sports.

Thank God that school is not an indicator of our state.


47 posted on 08/13/2004 4:23:19 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: Ichneumon

Did I hear someone say "meditate?" Cool, I love to meditate. From my FR Homepage: "Of note, I frequently meditate on the Republican Party Platform of 1900. This platform included balanced fair trade, a strong national defense, strong national sovereignty, responsible currency management, and a generally pro USA and pro Western Civlization stance. It is the essence of a rare time in our history where we were financially, geopolitically, and spiritually ascendent all at the same time. I think that we still don't fully comprehend the great harm done by Czolgolz' bullets. I urge all here to meditate on these things, and to consider how to move the GOP from a receding, reactive, increasingly liberal stance, to a stance of taking initiative and becoming the leader in both political and geopolitical development of the USA and Western Civilization. Some will label me a throw back to primitive ways, but as I see it, my ways are reflective of the true future and of the primacy of the greatest civilization ever to grace God's green Earth."


48 posted on 08/13/2004 4:29:33 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: Reactionary

It would quickly grow to control the entire government, at which point we'd be about where we are now.


49 posted on 08/13/2004 4:39:57 PM PDT by thoughtomator (I question the timing of this post)
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To: All

I am all for this department....we should also give the department around 100 nuclear warheads...a carrier battlegroup and a few wings from our airforce.....we can also put the Marine corp under the departments control and lets promote peace all over the middle east.


50 posted on 08/13/2004 4:44:25 PM PDT by Bushite
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To: DumpsterDiver
(6) Try desperately to avoid tossing your cookies?

We have State Department already, that's enough, perhaps too much as a matter of fact. We don't need another agency full of bureaucrats sucking at the public teat and doing absolutely nothing for the country.

51 posted on 08/13/2004 4:48:28 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Stick a sock in it Wally.


52 posted on 08/13/2004 4:49:15 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: DumpsterDiver

I rethought the thought that peace is the interregnum. Peace is anomalous. In sports speak, the halftime.

War is the natural human condition and those who think differently are either gone or will be.


53 posted on 08/13/2004 4:50:23 PM PDT by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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To: DumpsterDiver
The Daily Breeze. Very appropriate
54 posted on 08/13/2004 4:50:23 PM PDT by paul51
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To: DumpsterDiver
Dept. of Kumbaya.

What Walter really wants to say is that the UN should rule us.

55 posted on 08/13/2004 4:53:58 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: DumpsterDiver

A waste of human skin.


56 posted on 08/13/2004 5:06:23 PM PDT by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: DumpsterDiver
When you read this, did you:

2. Cry, (almost)

Once upon a time I respected this guy. But that was about four decades ago. Now he seems to be mentally trying to live up to his name, Krankheit. (Denke[?] ich, mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut jetzt...)

On the other hand, I might go along in a small way if we both rename and refocus the euphemistic "Defense Dept." back to its original, the "War Dept."

57 posted on 08/13/2004 5:52:56 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Can you feel the love?


58 posted on 08/13/2004 5:54:31 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: GOP_Raider

"I thought most folks went to Amsterdam for the Cheech and Chong treatment."

Some go for the "window treatment."

Wally is a dork. I too prefer War Department rather than the wussified Department of Defense (though DoD has a tiny bit of an ominous sound).


59 posted on 08/13/2004 6:03:53 PM PDT by Felis_irritable
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To: DumpsterDiver

Cronkhite is the Ellis Island version of Krankheit, or ... sickness in German. Well, the only thing to say is that a "Peace Department" WOULD bolster this nation's image, as a pathetic, head in the sand, ass in the air, politically correct giant version of Canada or New Zealand. Boy, would that scare away the terrorists.


60 posted on 08/13/2004 6:11:28 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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