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From: Bill on 11 Feb 2007 12:37 Coasty: >Being against any war is one thing, but smearing or using those who had died >serving for personal gain or even as a war protest is another and bullshit. Agreed 100% PFC Burton US Army '77 - '80
From: Schmoe on 11 Feb 2007 13:37 AH#104 wrote: >>>>> "The anti-war/anti-America group cannot be allowed to use the >>>>> Vietnam Memorial Wall as a back-drop to their anti-America venom > > Schmoe sed: >> Not seeing where you read that. The first paragraph is an opening >> statement of the protest. > > The sentence is a statement regarding the group. > Is it a statement of 2 groups, "anti-war" and "anti-American" bundled > into the larger 1 protest group? > Or is it a statement of 1 group being "if you're anti-war you are > anti-American"? > > Just a question of how things/words are perceived. > (are things and words separate as two entities in the above > statement... or are they one?) <shaking head> Oh, yeah, I got it now. > Also there's a lot of posturing regarding the word anti-American. > Anti-American and un-American are being bantered about as being > synonymous. They are not. That's true. Al Qaeda is anti-American. Escargot is un-American. <sfsf>
From: Juan Alderete on 11 Feb 2007 14:12 Schmoe wrote: > AH#104 wrote: >>Also there's a lot of posturing regarding the word anti-American. >>Anti-American and un-American are being bantered about as being >>synonymous. They are not. > > > That's true. Al Qaeda is anti-American. Escargot is un-American. <sfsf> Now now, I used to believe that Escargot was disgusting... until my wife fooled me... and after I devoured about a pound of those little rat bastards in one sitting! Food is Universal!
From: Juan Alderete on 11 Feb 2007 14:14 AH#104 wrote: >>>>>>>"The anti-war/anti-America group cannot be allowed to use the >>>>>>>Vietnam Memorial Wall as a back-drop to their anti-America venom > > > Schmoe sed: > >> <shaking head> Oh, yeah, I got it now. > > > So, now that we are on the same page. > > Do you agree with their statement that; "The Anti-war group cannot be > allowed to use the Vietnam War Memorial Wall as a back-drop to their > anti-American Venom"? > <there will be a backup question on this depending on your answer> > > Do you also agree with their statement that: "The Anti-American group cannot > be allowed to use the Vietnam War Memorial Wall as a back-drop to their > anti-American venom"? > > See how this is coming together as a more rational exercise in semantics? > > NO, I'm not an anti-semantic. > Some of my best friends are Semantics. I read The Holy Schematic once. Huh? Oh, never mind.
From: Al on 11 Feb 2007 14:27
Juan Alderete wrote: > Schmoe wrote: >> AH#104 wrote: > >>> Also there's a lot of posturing regarding the word anti-American. >>> Anti-American and un-American are being bantered about as being >>> synonymous. They are not. >> >> >> That's true. Al Qaeda is anti-American. Escargot is un-American. <sfsf> > > Now now, I used to believe that Escargot was disgusting... until my wife > fooled me... and after I devoured about a pound of those little rat > bastards in one sitting! > > Food is Universal! I went through half a bowl of lamb fries once thinkin' "dayum these mushrooms are good!" -- BS#205 CVNS G&W FD1 http://eddiekieger.com/ - Go Eddie! |