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February 09, 2007 at
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Subject: Don't Close Your Blinds
sad but true, this is why we are at war.
> Don't Close Your Blinds
>
> The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know
> why we were at war....
>
> My husband looked at our son and then looked at
> me. My husband and I were in the Army during the
> Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend
> our Country again today. I knew that my husband
> would give him a good explanation.
>
> My husband thought for a few minutes and then told
> my son to go stand at our front living room window.
>
> He said "Son, stand there and tell me what you
> see?"
>
> "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses."
> he replied.
>
> "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and
> our yard is the United States of America and you are President Bush."
>
> Our son giggled and said "OK."
>
> "Now son, I want you to look out the window and
> pretend that every house and yard on this block is a different
> country" my husband said.
>
> "OK Dad, I'm pretending."
>
> "Now I want you to stand there and look out the
> window and pretend you see Saddam come out of his
> house with his wife, he has her by the hair and is
> hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying. He
> hits her in the face, he throws her on the ground,
> then he starts to kick her to death. Their children
> run out and are afraid to stop him, they are
> screaming and crying, they are watching this but do
> nothing because they are kids and they are afraid of
> their father. You see all of this, son....what do
> you do?"
>
> "Dad?"
>
> " What do you do son?"
>
> "I'd call the police, Dad."
>
> "OK. Pretend that the police are the United
> Nations. They take your call. They listen to what
> you know and saw but they refuse to help. What do
> you do then son?"
>
> "Dad...but the police are supposed to help!" My
> son starts to whine.
>
> "They don't want to son, because they say that it
> is not their place or your place to get involved and
> that you should stay out of it," my husband says.
>
> "But Dad...he killed her!" my son exclaims.
>
> "I know he did...but the police tell you to stay
> out of it. Now I want you to look out that window
> and pretend you see our neighbor who you're
> pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same
> thing to his children."
>
> "Daddy...he kills them?"
>
> "Yes son, he does. What do you do?"
>
> "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go
> and ask my next door neighbor to help me stop him."
> our son says.
>
> "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is
> happening and refuses to get involved as well. He
> refuses to open the door and help you stop him," my
> husband says.
>
> "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by
> myself!!"
>
> "WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.
>
> "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the
> street saw you ask for help and saw that no one
> would help you stop him. He stands taller and puffs
> out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"
>
> "What Daddy?"
>
> "He walks across the street to the old ladies
> house and breaks down her door and drags her out,
> steals all her stuff and sets her house on fire and
> then...he kills her. He turns around and sees you
> standing in the window and laughs at you. WHAT DO
> YOU DO?"
>
> "Daddy..."
>
> "WHAT DO YOU DO?"
>
> Our son is crying. He looks down and whispers,
> "I'd close the blinds, Daddy."
>
> My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes
> and asks him. "Why?"
>
> "Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help
> people who need them... and they won't help.... You
> always say that neighbors are supposed to HELP
> neighbors, but they won't help either...they won't
> help me stop him...I'm afraid.... I can't do it by
> myself Daddy. I can't look out my window and just
> watch him do all these terrible things
> and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to
> close the blinds....so I can't see what he's
> doing........and I'm going to pretend that it's not happening."
>
> I start to cry. My husband looks at our nine year
> old son standing at the window, looking pitiful and
> ashamed at his answers to my husband's questions and
> he says...
>
> "Son"
>
> "Yes, Daddy."
>
> "Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your
> front door... "WHAT DO YOU DO?"
>
> My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in
> his eyes. He balls up his small fists and looks his
> father square in the eyes, and without hesitation he
> says: "I'LL DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M NOT GONNA LET
> HIM HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT
> HIM, DAD, I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
>
> I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he
> grabs our son to his chest and hugs him tight, and
> says. .. "It's too late to fight him, he's too
> strong and he's already at YOUR front door
> son.....you should have stopped him BEFORE he killed
> his wife, and his children and the old lady across
> the way. You have to do what's right, even if you
> have to do it alone, before its too late" my husband whispers.
>
> THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war
> with Iraq.
>
> When good men stand by and let evil happen son,
> THAT is the greatest atrocity in the world.
>
> "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT EVEN
> IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!"
>
> BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!
>
> BE PROUD OF OUR TROOPS!! SUPPORT THEM!!!
>
> SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE FUTURE OUR CHILDREN
> WILL NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."
>
> This should be printed in every newspaper and
> posted in every school in America. Of course that
> won't happen so we'll use the internet.
>
> If your blinds are closed do nothing with this
> email. If they are open, I don't need to tell you
> what to do.
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February 09, 2007 at
12:53:06 PM
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Damn Good!!!! Love it!
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February 09, 2007 at
02:16:29 PM
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That's fine and it's a great analogy but let's all remember that it was Dubya's dad that called off the wolves before the job was done in the first gulf war and the US government knowingly did nothing when Saddam was very much in Iraq but he was "our bully" when the Iran / Iraq war was going on. It may be comforting to forget the past to feel better about the present but it's the lessons of the past that are supposed to prevent this shit from happening again any way, isn't it? Ask your son this: The bad guy across the street is dead but it turns out all the stuff you saw was smoke and mirrors to make you THINK he was a big threat - what do you do now? While you're at it you should ask him why, while he was paying all this attention to the trumped up bad guy, wasn't he spending anywhere near as much effort as he needed to hunting down the asshole that killed 3,000+ people by orchestrating some planes to fly into buildings in someone else's neighborhood? Hell, while you're at it, you might as well ask him if he - or any of the rest of us for that matter - are any safer because the trumped up bad guy is dead now.....
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February 09, 2007 at
04:52:46 PM
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calendarguy "trumped up bad guy" ????????? talk about selective history lessons to justify your point of view.
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February 09, 2007 at
05:56:50 PM
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Read again: I never said he wasn't a "bad" guy. In fact I thought the first Gulf war was about as "just" a war as you could point to as an example. Even had a true International coalition supporting it. Right up until they told Norman Schwarzkopf to stop short of finishing the job it was masterfully executed. The trumped up part of it was the level of his threat to us. We didn't go in there because he was a bad person to his people so much but, if you rewind back to the stated justification to going in there, because we KNEW he had WMD's. FOR SURE! That's what they told the world. They should have at least planted some so that this mess wouldn't look like someone utilized their position as president to finish something your daddy couldn't. Wait - I didn't just type that did I? Well shucks and golly gee I did.......Hopefully Dubya doesn't look at the Internets.......
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February 09, 2007 at
06:01:51 PM
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Great Read
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