<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> boddi satva wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="midd25729380511271704p5789ab63qc9e376d5f157410f@mail.gmail.com"> <pre wrap="">"There was once a law that upheld slavery in this country. Would you thank the soldier who captured a runaway slave and returned him to his owner?" </pre> <pre wrap=""> Yeah, we actually split the nation in half over that question. You know, when the troops in the South decided to take it on their own authority to do what they thought to be the moral thing and defend slavery. So, unless you are suggesting that we have a civil war over the question of Iraq, it is not exactly an apt comparison.</pre> </blockquote> You did not answer the question. Joanna <blockquote type="cite" cite="midd25729380511271704p5789ab63qc9e376d5f157410f@mail.gmail.com"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>