Submitted by John McClain, Apr 24, 2007 12:23

I am heartened by this call to deal with the actual people of the Nation, stolen from them by one tribe. As Mr. Ibrahim states, it is always better to deal with the "real" people, despite differences, than to deal with those who have usurped their aquired position and maintain that position by murder. Just as the Saud tribe took over a Nation, so have the american politicians taken over America. The American people don't resemble the politicians who hold the sword over them, and having been a Marine in many foreign Nations, I know that the American People resemble the people of most all Nations, when the people don't have a government sitting in their back pocket keeping a close eye on them.

The world can look upon America and suggest that we have empowered those such as the Saud's, but the truth is more that the despotic "elected" leaders have been the perpetrators, and have not only imposed their will on other Nations, but imposed a silence on their own Nation stifling the people, and pretending to be leaders, rather than rulers that they are.

Nations don't declare war on each other, war is always bad for all the people who make up Nations. The only people who profit from war are rulers, and they profit by operating their regimes as if the regimes were the actual Nations. America has had the closest thing to a representative government in the history of the world. This has only meant that it has been harder for the rulers to maintain a regime, not that it is impossible, as our Constitution makes it, when it is heeded by the people.

John McClain, Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, retired.

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