"people in [Iraq] attempt to live in spite of him[Sadam], it is wrong that they should die..." . Dear Darleen, . You are as wrong as wrong can be. Your view of the populace of Iraq as "attempt to live in " is like saying that the United States in World War II should not have engaged in military strikes inside the boundaries of Germany and Japan since there resided a populace of an "attempt to live in " and are innocent from a fact of being born in that nation rather than entered and joined a fight against the United States. . Guess you might read history from another postion rather than every life is protected from harm as a right of birth. . Better yet, understand that anyone as a single person, or a collection of people up to a nation, has the right that you seem to extend to those in Iraq, but seem not to extend to those threatened by Iraq. . Now you say "prove this and that" or "show the threat" and i will entend my sense of self-protection to include a simple view that any leader of a nation that demonstrates a quest to do that activity that has been very active from the start of human existance thousands of years ago, that once this is knowned, any nation having a superior military force has a duty to its citizens to eliminate that leader(aka assassination) him or her and those connected to that government or movement, and from this hope the citizens of that nation gain control without a repeat of that trend, and if not, elininate that nation using a first strike using the most destructive weapon possible. . Note i have not mentioned good v evil, and need not since this activity i have described is "what works" for a person or a nation to survive. It is a bad event or situation or simply a Hell on Earth type existance for all that this is "the way" to success for a continuation, sure i reply as its a sickness that has been with the human race for thousands of years, and sorry human race, you "all" thousands of years ago and including the present, has the ability to cure self and get rid of the germs, but did not and actually helped it to do what is described as a cancer, being it grew and got larger and stronger, feed & helped by the human race using that ability to let others makes decision you should make. . Hell on Earth was one of many options available for mankind, and it was the very worst choice, and it was the one chosen. . "Not by I, you reply to me." With my reply "Your post is one asking for a continuation of hell on Earth." . But then as i stated, good & evil is not the issue here since the good has been "left behind" thousands of years ago and including today the good "need not apply" since it use is useless in the cancer called Earth. . So whats my point is simple, as expressed in the following. . "Frankly, I don't know what the present US administration is trying to achieve through this proposed war..." . Its extra very simple, "A world on planet Earth best suited for the United States." and to me amazing the "glue" that will keep this plan together is explained in one work, "Israel" (or) no one here seems to know what the near future will soon look like based on this nation's view that a continuation of the "same old same" will destroy it. . So, prez bush jr. has this info, and even unknowned to his father and many in his inner circle but out-of-touch, prez bush jr. for the first time in his life is offered the opportunity to do something he has NEVER been ALLOWED by himself or his Handlers, that being to make a decide of HUGE importance for the present and even HUGER importance as in influence, for the near and medium and long (aka forever) future. (or) This idiot + dummy + etc pres bush jr has been given control of the only super power on Earth, and placed in front of him is like a button to push, that ONLY he can push, and for the first time he can make that HUGE decision "by himself" - i repeat- "by himself" even that it is an illusion BUT he sees it as not, but for the first time, but first let me say, this prez bush jr has a deep dark secret, something everyone knows about even him, that all his life he have been handled, and deep down unspoken by him, he is angry and mad and and sorry folks, he will have his "day" and act on it and it ain't gonna be nice. Big Time, not nice. . (also) Don't forget, prez bush jr is deeply religious, and i don't remember his religion, probably Catholic, but no matter, as to him and his religion, all other religions are incorrect to say the minimum, as to the maximum, a sin and as such, need be terminated and so, prez bush's inner voice has no worry or bad'ness associated with "removing" or deny'ing others' their religious "availability" as "its a evil activity" and they "need to be SAVED" . (or) The most dangerous man possible, is one with power and without understanding.
doug |