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SADDAM'S TYRANNY
Now that the Hussein and
Baath Party regime has been ousted, they've uncovered a much
greater horror story than anyone could have imagined. The
History Channel is doing a remarkable job in bringing these
details to light, but believe me, it isn't light
entertainment. Yet, it is what every American should be
viewing, in order to learn, rather than wasting time on the
idiotic trash that passes for Sitcoms today.
Our children, especially our teenagers, sit back
and just grow fat and lazy, and laugh with the laugh tracks,
the Pavlov theory in practice. All the while there is a
constant stream of intellectually stimulating material on
other Channels, Channels that many of them never ever spend
time viewing. They may not be able to answer questions about
current events, but yet they do have remarkable memories for
something Seinfeld said six or seven years ago.
Why did we go to Iraq? The answers are there on
the History Channel, and they are varied, but for one thing,
we've certainly released millions from bondage to an
unspeakable tyrant, one who did exactly as he pleased while
looting the nation's billions from oil sold to the west as if
the wells belonged to him. He tortured and executed the
citizens of Iraq with impunity. Medieval Kings and Emperors
were not half as efficient at killing as Saddam.
If we invaded Iraq for no other reason than to
end his reign of terror, to end the atrocities,
something the United Nations should have fully supported (an
invasion) years ago. Indeed, they should have done everything
in their power to capture, imprison (and execute) the
bastard. Saddam Hussein himself. It is the best reason
in the world for retaining the death penalty.
Odd, isn't it, that the UN never condemns the
mass murders by tyrannical dictators, such as Fidel Castro,
but can find fault with our courts for handing down the death
penalty to serial killers? Odd, isn't it? Mierda del
toro.
Posted: 5-27-03 5:40 PM
IRAQ, THE TOWER OF BABEL REBUILT
The
confusion brought on by divergence in language is nothing
compared to the confusion caused by religion, politics, race,
clan loyalties, differing philosophies, and then. . . even
abject stupidity. So, here we are in Baghdad, with thieves
running rampant, ideologies fighting for dominance, twenty
million people of a different faith and outlook, and about a
quarter of a million American military men trying to bring
about order and making some sense out of it all. In fact, most
of them are probably idealistic Americans, and two of them
were shot dead yesterday, executed by the people they were
trying to help. We'll lose more.
Even though this land is known as the Cradle
of Civilization, much of it and the people in it seem to
be in their infancy. Fanatics abound, mainly because their
view of the world has been limited for centuries to their own
little villages of mud huts. The Rich rule, but not always
intelligently, that is, they rule until a thug like Hussein
comes along and then he uses them to suit his own
purposes.
In the meantime our anti-war crowd never lets
up, and they stand ready to swing into full-scale riotous
action every time we make a move. We can probably class 90% of
them as outright jerks, mental twits, manipulated by those
with serious political agendas. They make everything more
costly, more time consuming and troublesome, but little these
mental midgets care. It's our tax dollars that they're sucking
up, but since most of them are takers, not givers, taxes do
not involve them at all.
I think that every twit requiring two or three
policemen to lift up him or her to remove them from the middle
of the road should face an automatic penalty of $500, no
exceptions. They're costing us, and risking injury to the
officers, so let them pay for the privilege of being carried
to the sidewalk or a police car.
Posted:
5/10/03
THE LIBERALS GOT IT ALL WRONG
AGAIN!
Yep, they got it all wrong once again. That's
not unusual though, and that won't even faze them. They'll
just keep criticizing, just keep tearing this country apart,
the government, Washington, Bush, and even our historical
record. As long as the is a Republican administration,
everything is wrong about Washington.
What did they do in order to put a stop to this
terrorism?
They held Washington in the palm of their hands
for eight years, and we were attacked again and again, while
they reduced the size of the military and its' ability to
respond to such attacks! Every attack should have brought a
response, each succeeding one a stronger response, and it
should have been aimed right at the top echolon of
organization and not stopped until all of them had been taken
care of in one way or the other. The plans for 9/11 would have
been shut down--permanently.
Poster:
4/26/03 2:00 a.m.
LEAVE IRAQ QUICKLY?
The United
Nations, plus German and France are demanding that the U.S.
leave Iraq almost immediately. Now here's stupidity of the
first order, absolutely! If we leave Iraq in less than six
months the country would be in total chaos. What we went to
Iraq to accomplish would be lost, simply lost. The fight for
power would begin at once, and even the United Nations would
prove insufficient to quell the disputes that would arise.
Assuredly, the Baath Party would take over within weeks. They
are the only ones with an organization, and make no mistake,
they put all others into disarray for years, and they'd come
crawling out of their holes, rebuild their headquarters, call
their cops and enforcers out of hiding, and the same type of
regime would replace us when we leave.
This is not a short term job. No one knows when
it will end, but it takes time to erase all the ties to the
old party, a long time. We're there. We simply cannot leave
soon, no matter how badly we may wish to do so. And, we always
face the danger of Syria and Iran working together to oust us.
Did you see the thousands in the crowd to hear the speech by
the Ayatollah? Not the type of head-count done by these
grotesque protestors, when a few hundred turn out, but more
than ten thousand people in a huge square. (Cripes, I'd hate
to be there and have to pee!)
We simply are not going anywhere soon. We must
be friendly, but firm, and we must be sure that the new
government is strong enough to ward off the assassins from the
old regime and survive the attempted coups that will come
about as the struggle for power becomes serious. There is no
other way. We'd only be doing the same thing we did under the
first President Bush, the very same thing.
Thank the Lord that two Carriers are returning
home. All our Carriers in the Gulf, if we were surrounded by
the enemy...an uprising among the Arab nations, would be
sitting ducks. We need to be most diplomatic with each in
turn, so that we don't unite them against us. Talk nice to
Syria when you're angry with Iran, talk nice to Iran when
you're angry with Syria, but don't anger both of them at
once.
Hitler signed treaties with Russia, with Italy,
and with Japan. We are making a mistake to declare outright
whom we suspect of WMD programs, all at the same time.
Remember, they have ten times as many soldiers under arms
together, and that's pretty stiff odds to face, no matter how
superior our weaponry. We've done two stupid things in the
past: a) Done away with the draft. b) Clinton gutted the Armed
Forces. ALL our best troops are in Arab countries right now.
If they were cut off, where would be be? A few missiles headed
in this direction would change the face of our politics in a
hurry, and we do not need that either. And, we need a steady
supply of men and women into the Armed Forces. A new Draft
system? Think about it. (Besides, when you see so many twenty
year olds with four inches of gut haning over their belts, you
can see they need some hard training and discipline.)
Posted: April 16, 2002 1:30 a.m.
1940's - KATE SMITH & GOD BLESS
AMERICA!
If there was one song, and one person
who epitomized the emotions and the feelings of the American
servicemen in World War II, one voice that made the blood run
through their veins a bit hotter, and words that made their
hearts beat a little bit faster, that song was God Bless
America, and it was the most thrilling voice you could
imagine, the voice of Kate Smith. When I heard her voice come
over the airwaves, I had all I could do to hold back the
tears, and my thoughts were of my country and all that I owed
to it. I would say, in retrospect, that my feelings of
patriotism just about overwhelmed me, my pride in this country
and its history filled my mind and body, and the love of my
country was in every fiber of my being.
Few songs ever stirred to many millions as that
one did. I've missed her voice in years since then, but I can
tell you this, that if it comes over the airwaves again, every
bit of the same feelings will return and stay with me from the
moment she begins until the final note dies down. God Bless
America, my home sweet home!.
There was an English woman, Gracie Fields, and
her famous rendition of The White Cliffs of Dover did
the same thing for the British forces. I'd say that if there
were songs that sustained the American and the British troops,
it was these two songs. Two wonderful classy ladies, two very
patriotic women, as important to the war effort in the forties
as Betsy Ross was to George Washington and the Revolutionary
Forces, or perhaps the song, Yankee Doodle. I heard
Gracie Fields voice coming over the radio, singing The
White Cliffs of Dover one day as we were going through the
English Channel and could see the White Cliffs from my
porthole. What a thrill! What words: "There will be
blue-birds over, the White Cliffs of Dover, tomorrow, just you
wait and see." What a beautiful haunting voice, a song and a
voice that made every British soldier think of home, and
country, stirred his very soul.
As much as we had two leaders, in Roosevelt and
Churchill, who gave us the confidence and the faith that we
would win, that we would defeat the Axis powers, we had two
women who helped to give us the inspiration through their
thrilling voices and songs.
Our Servicemen and Servicewomen know what this,
patriotism, is all about, but too many of our students from
grade school on up through college simply don't have a clue,
don't understand patriotic feelings and love of country. They
think that criticism, simplistic slogans, clogging streets,
and even rioting somehow equates with patriotsim, that they
have the right to impose their viewpoints upon the rest of us
even if they must resort to some form of tyranny. They spew
venom and hatred, and don't engage in reasoned debate, trying
to enforce their Wills upon the rest of us.
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own,
my native land."
From all that I read and hear today, they are
exercising more and more thought control over the
students through an enforced code of political
correctness that imposes penalties for taking positions in
opposition to whatever standards those in charge of the system
wish to set, and expressions of patriotism or support
of the government are frowned upon. Free speech? Hell, they
believe in it only if it is by someone with their own views.
Anyone else they'll shout down. They're actually afraid to
listen to opposing viewpoints, afraid that those views might
make sense and expose the weakness of their own arguments, the
silliness of some of their own beliefs.
Whose heart has ne'er within him
burned,
As home his footsteps he has turned,
From
wandering on a foreign strand.
I've wandered those foreign strands, but the
song in my heart, which was the love of my country, never left
me. The Star Spangled Banner, and America the
Beautiful were always stirring enough, but then we added
another to them in World War II with God Bless America.
When I see the coverage of the war protestors, and hear the
terrible things they say about their own country, I simply
cannot understand it, cannot fathom how they could think this
way, to condemn, always condemn and fault their own country.
I, along with millions of others, sing its praises. I see the
good that we have done, and I know that what we stand for is
unique, because every time there is an oppressor, a new
tyranny, the people who flee it head in this direction, to the
United States of America!
If such there breathe, go, mark him
well,
For him no minstrel raptures swell
There is a price to pay for freedom, and there
has always been a price to pay for freedom. We, as a nation,
cannot long survive were we to live as a solitary free nation
among continents controlled by tyrannical rulers in
toltalitarian states. Those states cannot allow a nation such
as ours to survive, because every thing we stand for is an
anaethma to them. Everything we stand for is a beacon to
others, a light that shines forth and awakens sleeping masses
to the joys of freedom, and tyranny cannot stand that
challenge.
(This is a work in progress) Howard E.
Morseburg 2003
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IT AIN'T OVER 'TIL THE FAT LADY SINGS!*
The Marines, the Airborne, the Army, and the Brits are all
doing some mopping up now. If there is enough of an
infra-structure left in the Iraqi High-Command, they'll plan
on hit and run tactics. That's all they can do now. We've
destroyed almost all of their trucks, tanks, big guns,
missiles, and anything that would give them some semblance of
an Army.
Any group larger than half a dozen men is due
for annialation before they can get results, so they'll have
to resort to suicide bombers, two man squads, and snipers. If
we have knocked off the boys at the top, then there's no one
to guide them. It will take them some time to re-establish
contact and put units together, obtain guns and explosives,
and make their plans.
In the meantime we'll be setting up a new
government, and since they had a longer history of a stable
central government, they might even establish some type of
authority over these men before they can revert to guerilla
warfare. We'll see. I think the chances look good for that,
and that we can get out of there before we suffer too many
additional casualties.
Posted: 4/09/03
12:30 a.m.
*attributed to Jimmy Durante
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KNOCKING OFF HUSSEIN
I never went
hunting much when I was young. Maybe six to ten times, or
thereabouts. Rabbits and marmots, I think is about all, unless
you count rats at the county dump back in the 40's. The
marmots lived in the rocks, and one would sit up and look
around, like a sentry, and you'd shoot. He'd disappear down in
a hole and pop up from another one, looking around to see
where the noise came from. Or maybe it was his cousin coming
up. Maybe I had hit him, but I never found a dead one in those
rocks. It was the same game as shooting ducks at the County
Fair, only no bells rang when you got a hit.
Hussein is like that. Today they thought they
had him (again), but by the time that bomb dropped, he
probably had gone through a tunnel and was coming up in
another house three blocks away, looking around to see what
caused the noise. He's a second cousin to a marmot, methinks.
Some informer probably used a cell phone to call in the
sighting, so now Saddam's henchmen will be looking for the guy
with the phone. Life is cheap to those guys, especially if
it's YOUR life and not theirs.
Posted
4/08/03 2:04 a.m.
"BUSH IS GREAT MAN, HE IS ONLY ONE WHO GO
THERE TO FREE US!"
This is a direct quote from my
friend, Fadel, a man who fled Iraq because of the tyranny of
Saddam, when I talked to him this morning. "Bush is doing a
good thing," he said.
I asked another friend who also fled Iraq
because of his fear of the government there, and he voiced
almost identical sentiments. I know another group of people
from Iraq, and when I talked to them in mid-March, they were
looking forward to the U.S. and Britain invading Iraq to
depose that monster.
Despite the tyranny and their wish to be free
of it, the opposition simply had no strength, no weapons, and
no way to unify in order to fight Hussein and his cohorts.
Before they could gather an army together, Saddam would have
them all standing in front of a firing squad...after they had
been tortured.
Turn off those BNN stations (Babble 'n
Nonsense), and just watch and see how things will develop. The
U.S. has usually acted like the Boy Scout of the World, not
the conqueror, no matter what the BNN boys tell you. After
they have made their final broadcast and face the One who
makes the "final judgment", may they be sentenced to
perpetually stand under a pigeon's nest.
Posted: 4/07/03 9:30 P.M.
THE MAGICAL WORD--BAGHDAD
(BABYLON)
Just think, in that area you'll find all the
ancient Bibical cities, and peoples, those you find throughout
the Old Testament, such as the city of Babylon, and the
Assyrians, and all the other valorious warriors of the past.
In those days, capture meant either slavery or
death. There wasn't much to look forward to if you were a
loser. They needed every fighting man at the front, not in the
rear guarding captives. And, if they had a 100,000 man army,
it meant that those men carried shields, swords and spears,
that they were capable of fighting.
We have almost a quarter of a million men
facing Hussein's army, which used to be four times that size,
but a good estimate would most likely be that more than half
of them are support troops, not men who will be on the
fighting front. So, they have accomplished a tremendous amount
with such a small fighting force. Our weaponry did all the
hard work for them before they even faced the enemy head
on!
We were well prepared, not with sufficient
information about Saddam's forces of course, but our men were.
There may still be some unexpected surprises, but the hardest
part is over, getting the men and equipment there, getting
them into battle, and overcoming the strongest resistance. The
rest should be mop-up operations, but only time will tell,
will verify this. Again, in war, always expect the unexpected.
Posted: 4/05/03 12:34 PM
WAR IN A THREE PART SERIES The media's
reporters, those with CNN and NBC, are getting impatient. They
like any Series to have definite time slots so that they can
review it, analyze it, and then go onto something new. The War
is taking too long for them, already close to two weeks, and
most Americans today seem to have some form of ADD, largely
brought on by TV ads in their usual one tenth second
increments flashing images of new cars racing up a mountain
road, or the splash of a drop of milk on Post Bran Flakes or
the insertion of Tampons. War does not fit into any definite
category for them, and it also forces many of them to think,
something they are not accustomed to doing. They like simple
things, such as Sitcoms, with a laugh track, so they can
understand whether it is supposed to be humorous or not in
order to place it in its' proper category. Without a laugh
track they classify it as a drama.
However, all that may change, now that they
know that Saddam is in a lavish bunker a few hundred feet
underground, with numerous exits, like a gopher. They'll race
around Baghdad now, once we get there, looking for the hole
he'll pop out of next so they can get an exclusive interview.
Six exits, with six Hussein doubles, and they can all get an
exclusive to broadcast back home.
Me, what would I recommend? It's simple. Find
the location of the pipes where he flushes out his toilets and
plug them all up. Let Saddam and his sons slog around in raw
sewerage for a few days and they'll pop out soon enough. If
not, then reroute half the cities' waste and pump it back down
through his headquarters and let them all rot in it.
Posted: 3/29/03 11:06 a.m.
GETTING CLOSER TO THE REAL DANGER There
are those who believe we've bit off more than we can chew in
Iraq. Saddam has always spent heavily on his military and
maintained a million man army, while many of his people are
continually hungry. We're facing that Army, I believe, with
about 230,000 troops. That's quite a mismatch, except for our
superior firepower. The main problem will be in the
occupation, because then, when our men are out of their
armored vehicles, they are exposed to enemy fire with simple
things, like mines, booby-traps, hand-guns, rifles, machine
guns and grenades. It isn't easy to patrol on foot, or in
small lightly-armored vehicles. It could be a Black Hawk Down
type of situation on a weekly basis, if we're not careful.
I don't doubt the ability of our Generals, nor
those young officers who will be on daily patrol with their
men. I just fear the strain we will be putting them under to
try to live up to the Geneva Convention rules while fighting
an enemy who simply ignores those same rules. We need to keep
our men and women serving there in our thoughts and prayers.
When they show views of Baghdad on TV, look at the area it
encompasses and then think of the tremendous job of patrolling
those streets, and the chance for mischief and mistakes! I am
not an alarmist, just a realist, and worried about our men and
women every minute.
Posted 11:30 PM
3/27/03
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A DISTINCTLY ANTI-SEPTIC WAR
We've been as careful as possible to avoid civilian
casualties. We have fired long range missiles to take out
facilities that might cause us difficulty, such as
anti-aircraft weapons, their missile defensive and offensive
weapons, and by following a carefully laid out scenario, our
greatest number of casualties seem to be from accidents more
than enemy action.
But now comes the hard part, one which most of
us did not even contemplate when thinking about the
forthcoming war, getting food and other necessities into the
cities after they were captured. Basrah, a city of two million
people, is first on the list. Think of it, sending in every
single item they'll need to survive until the war is over and
commerce returns to normal. It's a big job. We'll soon have
the entire nation of Iraq on a sort of Welfare program. Wow.
Let's hope they don't get used to it.
A reporter on CNBC News kept trying to get the
head of the U.N. inspection group. Hans Blix, to say who was
responsible for starting the war, no doubt inferring that it
had to be President Bush. Blix answered by enumerating all the
violations of the U.N. sanctions committed by Saddam Hussein
and the Iraqii nation, including weapons of mass
destruction, including gas, and trying to develop atomic
capabilities!. He made it evident that Hussein had been
given every chance to comply, but he did not express the
opinion that the U.S. was wrong in taking the action it did.
He did say he would have liked more time to negotiate, but
bah, it he did not comply in all that time, and his forces
have not yet surrendered, that shows the mind-set, and the
necessity of going in, like it or not. Better now than a year
or two years from now. Each month adds to the danger we would
have to confront.
Posted: March 26,
2003
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SO FAR, SO GOOD, BUT...
Things are
moving ahead nicely. Too nicely. I'd rather think and be
prepared for the worst and hope that it won't happen, than to
become complacent and run into a tragedy because of that
complacency.
We may find our heaviest losses will be during
an occupation when the ordinary citizens rise against us
because they really do wish to be FREE, and misinterpret our
efforts. It'll be easier for them to get at us then, when
we're out of the tanks, armored carriers, and on foot in the
streets. Again, look and prepare for the worst, but hope for
the best.
Posted: 3/21/03 12:08 PM
ONLY A MIRACLE...
Only a Miracle
can prevent some sudden and catastrophic event that causes us
to lose our focus momentarily, but more than that, gives our
internal Fifth Column more ammunition to turn out thousands
more in protest actitivities that they may well orchestrate
into violence in order to take casualties which they can
exploit to their own advantage.
We must keep the faith in the strength and
endurance of our own Armed Forces to take such losses in
stride and overcome them. We must have the faith and fortitude
to resist the forces that will attempt to convince us that we
were wrong all along. Remember, our schools have been
infiltrated with Leftists and Liberals, those who would
sacrifice our ideals for the socialist policies of defeatism,
who would silence dissent from THEIR philosophies through the
use of political correctness.
Posted: 3/20/03 11:00 a.m.
THE ACTION HAS BEGUN
Now that the
action has begun, be prepared for anything. Remember,
that with a few more than a dozen men, Al Quaeda took out the
Trade Towers, and billions from the American economy.
Remember, two men in an old motorboat almost took out the USS
Cole, a billion dollar destroyer. They did do around a hundred
million dollars in damage to her, and laid her up for awhile.
Remember, a Muslim Mullah, and a few men in a van almost took
down the Trade Towers around ten years ago. Remember, Timothy
McVeigh, planned, and with little help, destroyed the Federal
Building in Omaha, Nebraska.
Now, let's go back to WW II. Two Italian Naval
Officers and a two man sub sank a British battleship in
the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt. Another two man sub, also
manned by two Italians, sank a second British
battleship. (All four survived the war as British
prisioners.) A small group of Norwegian Resistance Fighters,
seven or so, put the German heavy water facility out of
commission, thereby destroying all chance of the Nazis being
first to develop the Atom bomb, and then escaped on skiis
across the mountains to Sweden.
Heroes are born to all nations. These Muslim
terrorists have hated us for a long time. They've had years in
which to plan their attacks, to develop simple schemes with
terrible consequences. Whether we attacked Hussein or not,
their plans would eventually hatch and they'd spring into
action. Now, they have an incentive to speed things up, a
bigger incentive to sacrifice themselves, and they will. We
cannot catch up to them in a year or two when they've had all
this time to conceal themselves and to accumulate the weapons
of terror, and to prepare. We'll suffer losses, perhaps some
more severe than the Trade Towers (it's always possible), but
know now that we would most likely have suffered those losses
even if we had not had Iraq and Hussein to contend with.
Posted 3/19/03 9:45 PM
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS ABROAD
My first
thought is always for those who serve, our men and women who
are in the Armed Forces, and I firmly believe that we have
no greater duty than to support them in whatever they are
called upon to do. Those who are not into prayer, should
at least keep them in mind and trust that they will come
through this safely, and return home to us strong and healthy.
It is not possible for all of them to do so, but in-so-far as
is possible, let us keep faith with them and stand firmly with
them until this is all over.
While we may dissent, let us keep that dissent
between us, and not add our voices to those abroad, because to
do so can only give "aid and comfort" to the enemy. This can
result in additional casualities to both sides by encouraging
and strengthening the will of the enemy, thus prolonging the
war by weeks or even months. Certainly it can be argued that
Jane Fonda's actions during the Viet-Nam conflict, as well as
the Peace Riots stateside encouraged the Viet-Cong's
determination and efforts, and so cost us additional lives, as
well as wounded men. It also cost the South Vietnamese tens of
thousands of additional casualties after the conflict was
over, as they died from mistreatment in prison camps by the
communist government. This issue has never been addressed by
those who worked so diligently to end the war.
A decision to engage in armed conflict is
never easy for any president, certainly no easier for
President Bush today than it was for President Truman to make
us of the Atomic Bomb to end World War II, but once that step
is taken, I believe in marching in step until it is over. Our
service men and women abroad should not bear a cacaphony of
dissent if they are to do their best and end this war in a
victory over tyranny, the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.
Posted: 3/18/03 12:45 PM
THE SILENT MAJORITY MUST BECOME THE VOCAL
MAJORITY
We always talk about the Silent
Majority, but we can no longer afford to be that, if
indeed we are truly the Silent Majority. We must become
more vocal, let our opinions be known, not only here, but
abroad as well. We cannot allow groups, often orchestrated by
men and women of Maxist idealism, to interrupt our system of
government, to cause traffic tie-ups, to block our access to
either work or public facilities. That is not making use of
"freedom of speech", and it is not expressing it in a
different manner, but it is a direct assault upon all of us by
interfering with our rights and privileges, those of us
who may or may not agree with them. They impose a
tryanny of their own devising upon the rest of us, and
it should not and cannot be tolerated.
It is amazing to me how a small vocal group of
a few hundred people can intimidate and influence City
Councils representing hundreds of thousands, even millions of
people, to pass resolutions favoring their own political, even
subversive, agenda. We must always act within the law, but
certainly it is time for us to oppose vocal activists vocally.
We are not going to have our troops come home this time,
unwelcomed, practically in disgrace. They have the highest
ideals, so let us stand firm with them.
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