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Additionally, the young people in Iraq should be drafted into a couple of years of national service, no exceptions. Such service could be with the police, security forces, Army, or a national corps for rebuilding Iraq.

p>I don't see those elected representatives in Iraq really being serious about solving their problems. They pat the Americans on the back when it's daylight, then bring out the guns at night, to kill Americans, or their religious foes down the street. br> -- R. Goodson br> Vero Beach, Florida /p> p> LID ON COFFIN br> Re: Mark Tooley's The Coffin Legacy : /p>

First, I "tune in" to the 9/22 edition of TAS online, when, jumpin' Jehosaphat, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but the bellowing William Sloane Coffin beckoning me from the grave to come hither, grovel before the feet of the great seer, and beg forgiveness for the sin of being alive. Then, I read Mr. Tooley's account of this grand wizard of American Protestantism.

Perhaps, Mr. Tooley, you should be arrested for "disturbing the peace" per RET's "Their Sound and Their Fury"! Did we really have to resurrect this phony priest of "peace," even for educational purposes? But, since we can't put the genie back in his bottle, we'll just confront him.

Coffin's myopic spiritual vision, the source of his good intentions, "Coffin was inspired to go into the ministry, with an understanding that 'social justice is at the heart of the Gospel,'" was not only his guiding light, but his fatal flaw. He abetted the enemy of us all, by slavishly adhering to this false gospel, and one must wonder whose ministry Sloane Coffin's inspiration ultimately led him into. He seemed not to understand or care that one doesn't use the hammer and sickle to bring in the harvest. But then, to those who believe in "making the world a better place," the world is all there is.

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