Comments on: Just A Friendly Reminder…

By: Stevie

Stevie — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:36:05 +0000

YOU wait a minuteHSING:\"wait a godamned mintue......so it's everybody's opinion that it's ok fur us to have weapons of mass destruction but nobody else??i mean so for the USA ids the onlt country to use them yet we goaround telling everbody else not to have thema little ironic if you ask mepeace....ha ha thats funny\"Yeah, what were we thinking, putting an end to World War 2, by far the bloodiest and most violent conflict that ever was waged in THE HISTORY OF OUR PLANET? YES, I think the USA has the right to not practice what it preaches. YES, I think it's ok for the US to have a nuclear stockpile while insuring that rogue nations do not. NO, I don't think that it's hypocritical. Why? Because we're the GOOD GUYS. Sound trivialized? Over-simplified? It is. Guess what, the world IS black and white fella. And so is this issue. The world is a nothing but a big He-Man cartoon, brother, and Sadaam is Skeletor. Our weapons exist to preserve peace. Many say it is not our place to act as policeman to the world. Newsflash, it is. Why? Because if we don't, no one else will. Sadaam Hussein has access WoMD, and is attempting to get more. He doesn't want to dress the warheads up in their sunday best and have a prissy little tea party with them. He wants to use them. Against his enemies. Ok, lets do a quick breakdown of who THEY are.1) Us.2) Israel. Ok, lets review that again one more time Hsing - -Sadaam wants nuclear weapons to use against his enemies. -The list of Iraq's enemies is headed by the United States. -I am from the United States.Therefore, if Sadaam Hussein does get access to nuclear devices and sophisticated delivery systems, AS HE WILL IF HE IS NOT STOPPED, He will attempt to blow me up. Therefore I support blowing him up first.There it is, in the simplest terms possible. No political rhetoric, just cut and dry statements of truth. He wants you dead because you live here. My suggestion to you is to stop listening is to stop thinking about this problem in a sense of equality between nations, to stop asking questions like \"Can we...\" and \"Do we have the right to...\" and \"Is it really our place to...\" and start replacing them with the ultimate question: \"Does this have to be done?\"The answer is yes.Steve

By: reBORt

reBORt — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 05:36:10 +0000

wow. After reading a large number of these posts I have a few comments/observations. 1. a lot of you are dicks. That whole \"who cares?\" attitude is great when you're throwing empty bottles of Old English out the window of your trailor park but war is something much more serious. Ask anyone who's actually been in a war, faced that reality and see if they would speak of it so flippantly. 2. America is so torn up about 9-11 and yet so willing to inflict the same horror apon another nation. 3. Killing people for lower gas prices? That is absolutely sickening.In closing, I wish you all could see the real face of war. Then, perhaps you'll realize the gravity of this situation.

By: FredGarvin

FredGarvin — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 22:39:23 +0000

another comment...and the prophets spoke, and they said, the third great war will be started by the son of an idiot. Easy prediction to make, difficult to qualify, and more difficult to imagine.Imagine. good song. John Lennon. He's dead.Push the button already please.

By: Dani

Dani — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:08:01 +0000

Thank you CoolI suppose that I am just a little out of sorts and sensitive to what seems an uncaring attitude on some peoples parts..thank you for helping me to see things in a different perspective.. I know that politicians sure do have a way of making a mountain out of a molehill..peace.

By: DewsCool

DewsCool — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:43:57 +0000

its not thatDani, voicing concern over the war in Iraq is not intended to be any kind of slander against the armed forces. Many people have husbands, wives, brothers, family over there. A voice of dissent is against the decision made by pencil pushing politicians that haven't a damn clue what its like to actually be in the heat of battle, or risk life or limb \"defending American Interest\".DubYa went AWOL when he was in the g'damn air RESERVES, how is he to know what real service is like? Rumsfeld moves troops like they were lil army men on a damn Risk board. It has nothing to do with the people that will actually have to fight this campaign... Hopefully Americans will remember that when casualty numbers start coming in. To Dissent is being patriotic.