Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 6/26/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Popular sentiments are highly supportive of bombing other countries to the stone age and killing and torturing people perceived as a threat to the "American way of life." Why does it surprise you, when a politician aligns him- or her-self with such sentiments in an attempt to muster the majority of popular votes? In so doing, he/she merely expresses the inner soul of the American people.
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> PS. Given the death, destruction, and suffering that the US armed hordes inflicted on the rest of the world, I find this obsession with death penalty imposed on Americans disingenuous. It is like crying over the roses when the house is on fire. Who gives a shit?
You want that popular support for bombing tghe world to change? Then you had better want support for the death penalty to change also. The two go together, and one can't be changed without changing the other.
Carrol