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"This commercial was done by a local kid. You have to watch the whole thing. When he finishes talking and walks away, you get a sense of how this could be the commercial of the campaign season.
Bob Cook and I were on the Lake County Republican Central Committee together.
His son Joe returned from Iraq last year and I was at the celebration to welcome him home.
"Hi, My son Joe just did a commercial for John McCain.
Falla, that is a very moving video. I certainly respect that kid and the sacrifice that he made. However, without getting into the specifics of the Iraq war, I do think that it is a mistake to base whether or not a war was a mistake on whether there were real sacrifices made. If that were the criteria, then that would mean that every war ever fought could not have been a mistake. I recognize and respect the sacrifice that the soldiers are making and I'm able to do so and simultaneously examine the justification of asking them to do it.
As I watched the video and read of the obvious pride this young man's father had in him, I could not help but think about the parents who sent kids over there who they will never see again. I think about kids who will never know their mother or father and how our decisions today will shape families and legacies for decades to come.
Arguing the merits of the Iraq war is one thing in my opinion, but tying the justification for the war to the level of the sacrifice our kids are making is a mistake to me.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
Falla, that is a very moving video. I certainly respect that kid and the sacrifice that he made. However, without getting into the specifics of the Iraq war, I do think that it is a mistake to base whether or not a war was a mistake on whether there were real sacrifices made. If that were the criteria, then that would mean that every war ever fought could not have been a mistake. I recognize and respect the sacrifice that the soldiers are making and I'm able to do so and simultaneously examine the justification of asking them to do it.
As I watched the video and read of the obvious pride this young man's father had in him, I could not help but think about the parents who sent kids over there who they will never see again. I think about kids who will never know their mother or father and how our decisions today will shape families and legacies for decades to come.
Arguing the merits of the Iraq war is one thing in my opinion, but tying the justification for the war to the level of the sacrifice our kids are making is a mistake to me.
Falla, that is a very moving video. I certainly respect that kid and the sacrifice that he made. However, without getting into the specifics of the Iraq war, I do think that it is a mistake to base whether or not a war was a mistake on whether there were real sacrifices made. If that were the criteria, then that would mean that every war ever fought could not have been a mistake. I recognize and respect the sacrifice that the soldiers are making and I'm able to do so and simultaneously examine the justification of asking them to do it.
As I watched the video and read of the obvious pride this young man's father had in him, I could not help but think about the parents who sent kids over there who they will never see again. I think about kids who will never know their mother or father and how our decisions today will shape families and legacies for decades to come.
Arguing the merits of the Iraq war is one thing in my opinion, but tying the justification for the war to the level of the sacrifice our kids are making is a mistake to me.
That is true of any war Brother Stewart. But for others not giving their lives, some of us would not be here either. I don't think my dad or my brother fought in a war to have to justify it to you or anyone else whether it was somehow a sacrifice they shouldn't have to make.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
That is true of any war Brother Stewart. But for others not giving their lives, some of us would not be here either. I don't think my dad or my brother fought in a war to have to justify it to you or anyone else whether it was somehow a sacrifice they shouldn't have to make.
CN, I would never diminish the sacrifice that any person military person and their families have made. I was raised in a military household. My father was in the army for 22 years before he became a missionary. My only point was that we cannot use the valant bravery and sacrifice of those like your dad and your brother as justification to put them in harm's way in the first place. I thank God that your dad and your brother and my dad returned (to fulfil his purpose as a missionary). I'm just saying that many will never return to fulfil their destiny and we must be sure that our admiration for their sacrifice is not being used as the justification to demand that sacrifice.
In my opinion, it is entirely possible for good people to sacrifice and honorably serve in a war that is ill-advised and we owe their sacrifice the honor of making sure that that doesn't happen.
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There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Houston.
Either the United States will destroy ignorance, or ignorance will destroy the United States. – W.E.B. DuBois
CN, I would never diminish the sacrifice that any person military person and their families have made. I was raised in a military household. My father was in the army for 22 years before he became a missionary. My only point was that we cannot use the valant bravery and sacrifice of those like your dad and your brother as justification to put them in harm's way in the first place. I thank God that your dad and your brother and my dad returned (to fulfil his purpose as a missionary). I'm just saying that many will never return to fulfil their destiny and we must be sure that our admiration for their sacrifice is not being used as the justification to demand that sacrifice.
In my opinion, it is entirely possible for good people to sacrifice and honorably serve in a war that is ill-advised and we owe their sacrifice the honor of making sure that that doesn't happen.
Dear Bro. Tstew,
Incidentally, my father came back from WWII with such a burden for
foreign missions, that in 1988 our church which was much smaller at
the time, was awarded 3rd place per capita giving worldwide. He prayed
for those places while over there and brought the burden home with him.
He was a person who sacrificed greatly for the cause of missions. He was
truly the missionary's friend.
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