You got any reasonable thing to say or can I take it this post is indicative of your intelligence level and debating skills?
Actually, I’m curious how people can justify wishing for casualties in order to prevent future wars but are not willing to suffer casualties to overthrow a dictator like Sadam.
msmith537, I ** was ** one of those people.
I took my own advice and spent the last couple of days not watching news and not participating in any Irak related thread. In fact I don’t know right now what is happening in Irak (but if you want me to spoil “Barchester Tower” to you, I’ll be glad to do so).
I am a voracius reader and if I don’t have anything else to do I read till my eyes can’t take it anymore, today was one of those magic days. All day I’ve been reading the above mentioned book, boy I was so happy that I was almost ashamed of myself. I took a break of my reading and started doing my second favourite activity (no it is not sex, that I do so infrequently that I don’t count it as an activity) it is zapping. They were showing once again the images of captured american soldiers. And for the first time I ** really ** looked at them.
One of the POWS was a black, rather fat woman, and she was terrified. Funny I didn’t notice it the first time I watched the images, at that time all I could think was " it’s her fault, she is the invader". This time it was different.
So today I am not very proud of this don’t take me wrong I am still against this war or any other unnecessary war, I don’t want anybody to die not an Irakie, not an american, not a civilian and not a soldier.
I am pacifist and I want peace and fuck everyone that can justify the murdering of innocent people. If Bush can get Saddam cleanly he can do so with my blessing, otherwise the price is just to great.
Estilicon,
I apologize for my rude remarks in this thread. Sorry.
Peace,
jacksen9
I’ll tell you what–I’ll respect the Republican Guard as soon as I see proof that they’re doing as much as they can to avoid civilian casualties. Oh wait, they’re not. Guess that makes you an idiot Sterra and co.
I’m not pro Bush–the guy has got to be one of the most moronic Presidents we’ve had in recent memory–but that doesn’t mean that I think he’s worse than Saddam. Bush is an arrogant, sheltered idiot; Saddam is a psychopath and quite frankly the human race doesn’t deserve either of them. But if I had to chose one of them to lead my country it’d have to be Bush. Who would you choose?
And I have a lot of emphathy for our troops. They’ve been sent in harms way by incompetent civilian leadership and now the only way out for all of us is through Baghdad. They’re the only ones that can get us out of this mess; I just hope they don’t have to pay too stiff a price to do it.
To simply exist in a universe where such a set of alternatives is truly forced upon me would be such a surreal nightmare that I would either slip into a state of cognitive-dissonance-induced catatonia or make a wish and magically transform them both into lavender-scented balloon animals that would float away to some place where we could all be free of them both.
I believe in popular terminology this is called “giving up”, “retreating”, or “surrendering”.
Obviously if you ignore color and fabric composition most t-shirts are exactly the same, too. “You see what you want to see”, I suppose.