Tracy,

Reading your words:

>Thanks for the kind words Jim.

When I wrote in my message #768317:

>That's true, and now you're imposing another terrible torture to this poor people: war.
>
>Think you should have compassion of then and find a humanitary way (for the Iraqi people, of course) to capture that criminal.

You replyed in message #768334:

>"I am? Are you responsible for everything your government does? Of course if I am personally responsible, then I will have to hop a plane and go over there myself then and stop Saddam myself from performing any more acts against humanity. Oh that's right, I cannot--there are no commercial flights into Bahgdad anymore... too bad. I'll just have to let the military handle it I guess. So nice of you to have the knowledge, power, and authority to let me know what my responsibilities are Fernando. thank you."

Imediatelly I replyed to you apologising for the misunderstanding.

I tried to find that message (where I apologised), to point you to it and ask if you haven't read it, but didn't find. Certainly I made some mistake and it was not sent.

In there I wrote something like this:

Sorry, Tracy, by any means I wouldn't blame a person so kind and concerned like you for such things.

And tried to explain the misunderstanding:

The problem is: in portuguese we have two different words for you:

In portuguese: eu, tu/você, ele, nós, vocês, eles. In english: I, you, he/she/it, you, us, they (guess it's that way).

When I wrote "...you're imposing another...", "...you should have compassion..." I was meaning you in the 2nd person of plural (vocês in portuguese, and more specifically your govenment, and not you (yourself).

I apologise.

I sincerelly hope you understand my above words, and ask you, please, to pardom me if unintentionally I hurt you. You can be sure it was not my intention, you deserve all my respect.

Again, I apologize.

>"Regardless of whether or not I agree with our country's foreign policies, those individuals have my complete support and I wish them all well and a safe return.

They have my support too (if that counts). Also hope they can soon get back to their families, healthy and safe.

Fernando