Thanks for the rhetoric, Guest. Once in a great while, something comes up which is worth exerting myself for.

You do not care whether Bush or Kerry is elected, because you have cloaked what is basically a deep apathy with a fine filigreed cloak of rationalization about principles, and the long view of things, and how they are just the same.

I see the difference clearly, and I know that ONE DAY of having Kerry instead of Bush -- there ar eno other options at the moment -- in the office of C-i-C could save the lives of innocent people.

That is sothing worth fighting for, and if ithe mathematics of that equation are not clear to some folks, that does not mean I should change my appreciation of the elements in play or how they stack up. Because one voice can change a few others, and these in turn can make the difference between Bush and Kerry being voted into office. And that, in turn, could just save someone's life.

It may be someone I have not met yet -- but I will not back down on trying to make it happen. It might be an Iraqi teenage girl, or an American boy from Arkansas or Maine, or a British soldier from Yorkshire. The life is worth saving. Sving the life is worth voting for. I am tired of having pictures of bloody ruined corpses being laid at my doorstep, and hearing people defend the leader who intiated the warfare that caused them.

If I have stepped on anyone's toes with this piece of rhetoric, please accept my apologies.

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