Re: "If you support Bush and his decision to go to war in Iraq then you care more for Iraqi lives than the American lives that were lost in the WTC."
While all lives are important, I'll not quibble with your insinuation that I should put Americans, i.e. my own kind, ahead of others. However, there is no connection between my support for the Iraq War, and your mistaken belief that I must therefore value Iraqis over Americans. I likely wouldn't support the Iraq War if I didn't believe it protects Americans, so your conclusion above is of course dead wrong.
I believe the President has proven himself quite serious in the war on terrorism. You seem to think if Terrorists can attack as in London, it means we are losing the war on terror. In reality, neither you nor I can envision how to have totally shut terrorism down by now, if perhaps we could if over the course of the coming decades. Perhaps you are more hawkish than I, but I wouldn't have thought so given your stance on Iraq. Perhaps to prevent terrorism and win, you'd like to nuke some chosen places around the world, including buildings & homes where merely suspicious people live. That might nearly shut terrorism down. We could bomb mosques in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, for instance. Oh, what we could do. We could quit pussyfooting around, damn the collateral damage in innocent lives. That could do it.
You think Iraq doesn't help us and I'm confident you are very wrong. I suppose there is little to be done about that, I'd just like you to know I certainly don't favor Iraqis over Americans.
Dan B. |
