No more war for me - cards have been dealt anyway.

[Joe for Clark]

God bless the United States - and dear god - we earned this mulligan - if it is true at all that we reap what we sow - then you owe us this one, god.

Joe

[onethatcares]

1. Joe,

I swore war off a long time ago. Good luck

[Joe for Clark]

5. I think I can just look at the history of it.

I will try my best to close my eyes right now - I think it may be done anyway.

Joe

[Joe for Clark]

2. And by the way - I meant word for word everything I said about

Japan - that I said I thought our kids were worth everything- I meant it. Every word.

These kids - every kid of ours that ever fought any war, anytime - they are all the same to me. I love every single one of them - I have an idea of what they gave up, right or wrong - to do the thing the government, right or wrong, asked them to do - they got no voice in that right or wrong vote - they should not have - and they lived with the consequences - or sometimes died with them.

They were ALL good kids, our kids. It was always up to us to do the right thing by them, by our country - and if we can't care enough about our country, our kids - then we should be damned. Maybe we will be.

Joe

[Blashyrkh]

3. I'm sure the 250,000 people who were vaporised in that second agree.

But they're Japanese so they don't count right?

[Joe for Clark]

4. I listen to people talk about the bombings in Hiroshima and

Nagasaki - and not one ever understood - bomb or not - every single day we would have killed tens of thousands of people with incendiaries - we killed what, a hundred thousand in Tokyo -

I actually read the war plans on the coming invasion of Japan- best estimates 5 million dead - you know that??

My problem with Japan has little to do with the war, really. War is war. It has to do with a complete failure to take responsibility. To do the right thing.

I have pretty strong feelings aboutt this thing - so I will stop.

Joe