Thank you so much Fernando. It appears that there was a misunderstanding due to language differences (so easy to do when all communication is in writing only). I appreciate your words and of course, I value your opinions and look forward to future discussions with you. :o) Oh yeah, I will keep these language nuances in mind from now on so hopefully I will not misunderstand your intentions ever again.

>Tracy,
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>Reading your words:
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>>Thanks for the kind words Jim.
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>When I wrote in my message #768317:
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>>That's true, and now you're imposing another terrible torture to this poor people: war.
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>>Think you should have compassion of then and find a humanitary way (for the Iraqi people, of course) to capture that criminal.
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>You replyed in message #768334:
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>>"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."
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>Imediatelly I replyed to you apologising for the misunderstanding.
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>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.
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>In there I wrote something like this:
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>Sorry, Tracy, by any means I wouldn't blame a person so kind and concerned like you for such things.
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>And tried to explain the misunderstanding:
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>The problem is: in portuguese we have two different words for you:
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>In portuguese: eu, tu/você, ele, nós, vocês, eles. In english: I, you, he/she/it, you, us, they (guess it's that way).
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>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).
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>I apologise.
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>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.
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>Again, I apologize.
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>>"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.
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>They have my support too (if that counts). Also hope they can soon get back to their families, healthy and safe.
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>Fernando