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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 05:24 PM
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Thomas Paine on Cheney v. Murtha:
"These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine, The Crisis -- December 1776


Cheney, who is Tyranny personified, gave his all shrinking from the service of his country and gallantly fighting DUIs in time of war. Murtha, who deserves the love and thanks of man and woman, gave at the foxhole in Quang Tri Provence. That's all you need to know.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-05 05:45 PM
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1. I'm reading Howard Fast's "Citizen Tom Paine"
Edited on Wed Nov-23-05 05:46 PM by Sequoia
right now. I missed my bus stop this morning because I was so "there" in 1775.

Did you know that in the 1950s the FBI was pulling that book off the library shelves because Howard Fast wouldn't name names during the Red Scare?
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