<HTML>In a message dated 9/27/01 10:44:54 PM Central Daylight Time, josephspiano@home.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">You forward a petition asking me to support your totally unrealistic, unwarranted ideas of pacifism in the face of enemy aggression directed towards targets on our own soil. Like it or not, We ARE in a war already and need to support those placed in authority over us at this time with our hearts, our minds and our dollars. Please pedal your petition somewhere else, but make sure you do so out of earshot of the graves and final resting places of those innocents fallen to the sword of evil. By the way, have you given any consideration of the untold thousands who have given their lives in the cause of freedom so that people like you can continue to carry the banner of pacifism while not giving any measure of devotion to our country in return? AN AMERICAN AND PROUD TO SUPPORT OUR GOVERNMENT IN THESE TIMES. HOW ABOUT ALL OF YOU? Joseph Alkana  RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> Joseph I think you need to listen to the TV and the radio. The more I hear and see, I believe the Taliban are more of a Nazi type of regime, than a real government. The majority of people living in Afghanistan do not support this regime. They are hungry, poor, and tired of fighting. By giving them food, clothing, they will see the US as a compassionate country that is not trying to take them over, like the Soviets did, but a government that is trying to help. I saw an interview this morning on Good Morning America, of an American reporter talking to Taliban prisoners. These people want all US citizens killed. They are of such a mind set that are willing to kill children the get what they want. The Taliban is the enemy in Afghanistan, not the majority of the citizens. Why do think millions of them have bee fleeing to Pakistan long before the September 11 attack? I support the President, and the government. So far, I have not seen massive bombing raids, or thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan. Perhaps the President has already taken the thought of providing humanitarian aid as a means of fighting terrorism. It will not be the only way, but it will certainly go a long way towards peace. And that is what we all want, isn''t it? Wim</HTML>