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As for my omissions, I wasn't defending or explaining all Allen's character as depicted in Lizza's article. There are a few points here: 1. I don't think everything in a candidate's past is fair game, especially based on family tell-all books. Sen. Allen declines to challenge her account, which to me is a sign of class because that would only escalate in a public forum what is properly a family dispute. 2. You're welcome to your own opinions about Allen's character in light of his sister's book. Since the charges are out there, please educate yourself. (Though I wonder why a concerned Virginia resident didn't read her book when it came out during Allen's 2000 Senate campaign.) 3. Speaking personally, I hope I'm not judged in 30 years based on fights with my brothers -- we fought hard.

p> THE HARD, RIGHT CHOICE br> Re: Philip Klein's It's Time : /p>

"With the nation now divided between those who are pro-Iraq War and anti-Iraq War, those who support Bush and those who hate him, the film helps us remember that we're all in this together."

Yeah, we are in this together and that seems to be the problem. It means that some among us have to recognize evil. But that also means making a choice, between dealing with it, or hoping the world is big enough to explain it away. The latter is choice we no longer have.

The feel-good leave me alone types, the commie-lefty-libs, and sub-culture folks who enjoy American life, leisure, and luxury, resent the surcharge of freedom assessed to them. They are blaming Bush for reminding them of what citizenship really means. Before 9/11, life was easy, non-confrontational, and routine, like a magazine article, a PBS documentary, something far, far away. The violence elsewhere in the world was just a water cooler topic, with a discussion of a Seinfeld episode to take the edge off.

Well it looks like America has enemies, because a free nation and a free people reflect the utter damnation of the despotic miserable life these terrorists are too scared to overthrow in their own wretched countries. So, what's a free nation to do? We go there, and rather than nuke them, we expend tremendous blood and treasure to depose their vermin, and GIVE THEIR citizenry a second chance on life.

p>That is compassion. We cannot let the Americans who perished on 9/11 down. br> -- P. Aaron Jones br> Huntington Woods, Michigan

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