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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 08:50 AM
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In 3 Election Cycles We Could Change the World.
We could be drilling water wells across Africa, training doctors to fight malaria and other diseases in the developing world, and developing trade agreements on the basis of equality rather than empire. Who would be attacking us then?

utopian? i know. but still, the fact remains, it is within our grasp and only 3 election cycles away.
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requiem99 Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:03 AM
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1. Look, I love dreaming but we need to face some realities.
There are people in the world, and always will be, that hate civilized countries who have equality, free religion, civil rights, free trade and industry, a free market, and wealth and power, because those things go against the most basic principles of some people and religions.

Ok, fine, just one religion really, but it's the second biggest one in the entire world, so it's important.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:05 AM
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2. yeah, none of it has to do with the theft and rape of their resources...
for our gain. i forgot. how silly of me.
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requiem99 Donating Member (663 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:08 AM
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3. I didn't say it was all their fault, don't throw a tantrum.
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missouri dem Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:10 AM
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4. I like the way you think.
Electing Kerry will be a good start but we must demand the kind of world that our children deserve to inherit. What a world we could have by dismantling the military industrial complex, exercising population control, and investing in renewable and clean sources of energy.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:16 AM
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5. 3 election cycles like this one...
and it would be reality.
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