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Pass It On To Barack Obama

Please, pass on the following to the speech writers of Senator Barack Obama, because they would be needed for his next stump speeches. "To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability." ~ George Bush Senior "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." ~ Malcolm X 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ~ G.K. Chesterton "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." ~ Penny Bright "Patriotism is supporting