[Newspoetry] Re: Newspoetry digest, Vol 1 #1005 - 1 msg

[Peter Folk]

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>    1. Only an Idiot Could Blow His Lines (Donald L Emerick) 
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> From: "Donald L Emerick" <emerick at chorus.net>
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> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 01:36:02 -0500
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> QUOTE OF THE DAY
> "Our wars have won for us every hour we live in freedom."=20
> PRESIDENT BUSH,at a cemetery above Omaha Beach.=20
> NewYorkTimes 28 May 2002

Catching up on my NewsPoetry, I ran across your poem.  While I
appreciate the sentiment, I think you're arguing backwards.  You
argue that War X did not bring freedom (well, usually you argue
that their points were not freedom, but whatever).  That may
be, but is irrelevant with regard to whether Freedom X is possible
because of ("was won for us by") a war we fought to preserve it. 

Pete