Hi, John

You're right here, some of the messages were too harsh. Fortunatelly, you won't find my name in those messages. Also, I never said 'Kerry is better than Bush', nor viceversa. What I'm trying to say is we are different as human beings. We have different values and oppinions. Problem is that people tend to try to convince others to give up their oppinions and convert. You can see this all over the place: in this thread, in muslim world, in christian world, in democrat party, take your pick. IMO, this is the root of all evil - to not accept that people could think different and want different things.

When this will change, world will be a better place.

Thank you

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>I don't think we're crazy enough to believe our country is not above reproach on any issue, but it IS OUR country. I haven't seen many, if any, posts here about how terrible France is for being a socialist state and involved with selling arms to Saddam, or Germany, or Russia, etc. Where is the outrage on those?
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>Sure, the US needs to be aware of our position in the world, but I think we are. What other country displays the generosity ours displays? None! That's not even counting the assistance our churches send out all over the earth. We have a process for dealing with our issues known as an election and that process is currently underway. It has served us well for a couple of hundred years, and I hope it will continue to do so. We aren't so thin skinned that we can't take some constructive criticism, but some of it here has been over the top.