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8.25.06 @ 12:01AM

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By the way, when my grandparents came here with their "silly foreign names," they were met with much more verbal abuse and mistrust in this country -- including the physical search my grandmother went through every morning on her way to work because, although she had two sons in the service in WWII, she was an Italian--than Mr. Sidarth will encounter in his lifetime.
-- Lisa Fabrizio

THE NEW DIPLOMACY
Re: Christopher Orlet's War Eternal:

I absolutely agree that if we want to win this war on terrorism we need to get rid of the childish, '60s, buy-the-world-a coke-and-live-in-harmony fantasies. Israel will now have to pay an even bigger price in more lives lost, as this phony cease-fire that will not last is only an excuse to let the terrorists regroup and rearm. This is Clintonite thinking that has been adopted by the Bush administration, and these people, including Condoleezza Rice, need to get their head out of the clouds and realize that no peace treaty or cease-fire will ever be permanent until we deal the terrorists a decisive, crushing blow. And yet these ignorant fools with their Clintonian thinking still believe in the '60s bull crap that we can "negotiate" a peace treaty with these savages without a decisive military victory. If we hadn't used the atom bomb on Japan, we probably would have ended up with nearly a million more casualties if we had to invade that country. There will never be a victory over Hezbollah or any other terrorist organization as long as we keep listening to the ignorant communist fools at the U.N. who feel that the terrorists are equal to the rest of us, and deserve the same rights. This attitude is what is stopping us from living in a truly peaceful world -- the communist b.s. idea that Western civilization is no better than that of the savages that have declared war on us. Mr. Kofi and the rest of the U.N. fools are no different than Neville Chamberlain.
-- Jerry Sorrentino

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE OUTREACH
Re: Nathan Maskiell's letter (under "Reader Mail Corner") in Reader Mail's The Eyes Have It:

I'd like to thank Nathan Maskiell of Melbourne, Australia, for taking such interest in America to defend us from "those who think the USA is a belligerent, thoughtless, and red-neck blight on the world." We appreciate it.

I, in turn, keep up with what happens in Australia politics to defend your country from those who think the Aussies are nothing but beer swilling Neanderthals that call fighting rugby and make fun of the silly uniforms they wear playing Australian football.

Last time I checked your Prime Minister Howard was a good friend of the USA and conservative even by your standards. We thank him.
-- Greg Barnard
Franklin, Tennessee
P.S. I do like hanging out with the Nashville Kangaroo Australian Football club. What a hoot!

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