Brent Ashley: In order to Serve You Better, we're going to invade Iraq
It's not so much that I disagree with the end result they're looking to achieve. I'm mostly insulted by their ridiculous diplomatic sleight-of-hand meant to fabricate premises for action and draw our attention away from the real core agendas driving their actions.
Please, give me credit for understanding and supporting a long-term strategy of protecting oil resources from control by irrational interests, or of nipping a potential nuclear terrorism or cancerous fundamentalism problem in the bud before it ever has a chance to take hold. Just don't feed me prevarication and spin.
Julian Bond: Why I'll be marching on Saturday
It's not because I particularly agree with the Far left, Radical Islam, CND, Student activists, Jesse Jackson or any of the other political groups that have hijacked that side of the debate. And it's not because I necessarily disagree with all of the right wing, propaganda machine that is trying to tell us that those are the only people who are against the war. It's because I don't believe that in 2003 a war against Iraq would make the world a better place for the people who live in it; either in general or specifically in the middle east.
Now my confusion comes because I'm willing to accept that a bit of gun boat diplomacy may have an outcome that improves the lot of the Iraqi people and by implication, us. It may be that a vigorous opposition to corrupt, undemocratic, power hungry regimes with little respect for human rights is a good thing.
But I still can't condone the first strike invasion of a sovereign state on the basis that they might do some thing, some day. Or even that they did some thing in the past.
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
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i think we should start bombing and start dropping them everywhere. our country controls the world. it is our job to use our power to maintain control, and i think that we use our power well. sure we do some shady things with it once and a while but thats what happens when your the big dog on the block. our country was attacked and there are groups that want to keep attacking us. and i believe that hussein had a factor in that. im sure hes been feeding osamas wallet with some fat bills for a while. and i dont give a damn who isnt with us on this. i understand that they are not geographically separated from the craziness that goes on in that side of the globe. if they were smart they would say that theyre opposed to a war and thats it. so we go alone, big deal. so i say let the bombs fly, i know it will probably cost american lives but thats what the military is for.